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(1579?–1631), English colonizer in America, born in Willoughby, Lincolnshire. After some years of military adventure abroad, he became an investor in the London Co., and he was one of the members of the expedition that, in 1607, established Jamestown, Va., the first permanent English settlement in America. He organized trade with the Indians and led expeditions to explore and map the region surrounding Jamestown. On one of these expeditions he was captured by the Indian chief Powhatan and, according to his own account, was saved from being put to death by the chief’s daughter Pocahontas. Smith was president of the Jamestown colony from 1608 to 1609, when he returned to England after being badly burned in an accident. His courageous and resourceful leadership is credited with largely having carried the colony through its first two years. In 1614 he returned to America and led an expedition that explored and mapped the coast of New England, from which he brought valuable furs and fish back to England. Smith’s writings include The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624) and The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith (1630).
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SMITH, John
SMITH, John. (1579?–1631), English colonizer in America, born in Willoughby, Lincolnshire. Smith was president of the Jamestown colony from 1608 to 1609, when he returned to England after being badly burned in an accident. Smith’s . . .
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