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How did the location and design of the Jamestown colony affect their experience?

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COPPIE OF A LETTER FROM VIRGINIA, DATED 22D OF JUNE, 1607, THE COUNCELL THEIR TO THE COUNCELL OF VIRGINIA HERE IN ENGLAND.

“….channel so stored with Sturgion and other sweete Fishe as no mans fortune hath euer possessed the like. And as we think of more may be wishes in a River it will be found.”

“The soil is most fruitful, laden with Oake, ashe, Wallnut tree, Popler, Pine, sweet woods, Cedar and others yet with out names that yealds gumes pleasant as Franckumcense, and experience amongest us for great virtue in healing green wounds and aches,……”PART OFDaniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

After reading “Coppie of a Letter from Virginia”, List 5 items that the colonist found that would be useful.

Document 4John Smith is taken prisoner

CREDIT: "How They Took Him Prisoner in the Oaze, 1607," an illustration from a booklet of reproductions from The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of

John Smith capturing a Powhatan

John Smith capturing a Powhatan

CREDIT: Drawing from John Smith's "Discourses of Capt. John Smith" The Library at The Mariners' Museum

John Smith Trading with Native Americans

Explain how each picture is a positive or negative interaction with the American Indians.

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According to Ralph Hamor, what helped to improve the dire situation in Jamestown?

The following is a quote from the colony secretary in 1614 after the colonists were granted 3 acres to farm for themselves.

“…plenty of food, which every man by his own industry may easily and doth procure….We reap not so much corn from the labors of thirty men have done for themselves now.” After this there was no more famine in Jamestown.

-Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor

Quoted from mises.org from a letter.

John Smith Trading with Native Americans