Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier
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Table of Contents Contents Preface viii 1 The Luckiest Boy in England 1 2 The Crossing 15 3 The West Indies 28 4 Virginia 42 5 Life along the James River 55 6 Danger Every Minute 71 7 The Seasoning 85 8 Salvation 98 9 Trading Terror 115 10 New Year New Promise 124 11 Fire 139 12 Outfoxing the Emperor 150 13 Jamestown 166 14 Man of the New World 177 Author’s Note 194
Preface English ships explored the coast of North America for more than a century before England successfully planted a colony in the New World After Columbus discovered the West Indies in 1492 and all through the 1500s ships from England Spain and France made many voyages to the coast of North America Pirates sailed the American waters too England made its first attempts to establish a North American colony in the 1580s In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh founded a colony on Roanoke Island off the coast of what is now North Carolina Nobody knows what happened to this lost colony By the beginning of the 1600s England Spain and France each claimed land in North America and tried to hold onto those claims by starting permanent settlements In 1620 the Mayflower set sail to found the Plymouth Colony But fourteen years earlier in 1606 King James I had chartered the Virginia Company of London and its first fleet set sail in December of the same year The fleet reached Chesapeake Bay in 1607 The settlement they established became Jamestown England’s first permanent North American colony
