Traveling aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies, English settlement in North America was born.
Born in 1580 in Willoughby, England, Smith left home at age 16 after his father died. He joined volunteers in France who were fighting for Dutch independence from Spain. Two years later, he set off for the Mediterranean Sea as a sailor on a merchant ship. In 1600 he joined Austrian forces to fight the Turks in the “Long War.” Powhatan the acknowledged paramount chief captured and imprisoned Captain John Smith in late 1607. John Smith said “Yet you see by what strange means God hath still delivered it.” (Pg. 77) Smith says with the help of god it helped him get released. …show more content…
Born in England, he migrated with the Separatist congregation to the Netherlands as a teenager. Bradford was among the passengers on the Mayflower’s trans-Atlantic journey, and he signed the Mayflower Compact upon arriving in Massachusetts in 1620. As Plymouth Colony governor for more than thirty years, Bradford helped draft its legal code and facilitated a community centered on private subsistence agriculture and religious tolerance. Around 1630, he began to compile his two-volume “Of Plymouth Plantation”, one of his most important settlements of New England. The puritans aboard were getting infected by a disease due to starvation. The other puritans would say “if they died, let them die.” (Pg. 82) The passengers were selfish and only cared about themselves while other puritans helped each other
Born in 1580 in Willoughby, England, Smith left home at age 16 after his father died. He joined volunteers in France who were fighting for Dutch independence from Spain. Two years later, he set off for the Mediterranean Sea as a sailor on a merchant ship. In 1600 he joined Austrian forces to fight the Turks in the “Long War.” Powhatan the acknowledged paramount chief captured and imprisoned Captain John Smith in late 1607. John Smith said “Yet you see by what strange means God hath still delivered it.” (Pg. 77) Smith says with the help of god it helped him get released. …show more content…
Born in England, he migrated with the Separatist congregation to the Netherlands as a teenager. Bradford was among the passengers on the Mayflower’s trans-Atlantic journey, and he signed the Mayflower Compact upon arriving in Massachusetts in 1620. As Plymouth Colony governor for more than thirty years, Bradford helped draft its legal code and facilitated a community centered on private subsistence agriculture and religious tolerance. Around 1630, he began to compile his two-volume “Of Plymouth Plantation”, one of his most important settlements of New England. The puritans aboard were getting infected by a disease due to starvation. The other puritans would say “if they died, let them die.” (Pg. 82) The passengers were selfish and only cared about themselves while other puritans helped each other