Comparing John Smith And Jamestown

John Smith, of Jamestown 1607, faced the difficulties of weather, starvation and the new people of the Native American tribes. He wasn’t the only one who had faces these difficulties, for John Winthrop, a man who took the voyage in 1630 to sail on the Arbella across the Atlantic Ocean for nine weeks. Yet, another memorable member of the 17th century colonial literature would be Jonathan Edwards, who encounters weather and natural disaster in a completely different form than the others.
John Winthrop wrote a complete scripture about his voyage, journalling all accounts of the weather and ongoings of how people acted on the ship, “This night was very stormy. All the time of the storm few of our people were sick... and there appeared to be no fear...(Winthrop)”. Most often, Winthrop would record how the wind strength varies everyday. Also, cold, rough weather would occur. Winthrop records, also, when people fall overboard or sightings of other ships, although times like these are rare. …show more content…
He colonised Jamestown, and he was president of the colony for a year, between 1608-1609. Smith explored the land, now called New England, and went all the way from Massachusetts to Maine. John Smith, on his second voyage, explains in his writings that he was held by pirates against his will, “Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many stranger triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet so he demeaned himself amongst him, as he not only diverted him from surprising the fort, but procured his own liberty and got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, that those savages admired him (Smith)”. During John Smith’s time out at sea, the wind had soon took a tole on the boat, and the boat was held back by about three months, making the boat take longer than he had