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Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New
England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was
knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of
Transylvania. He is remembered for his role in establishing the
first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown,
Virginia, and his brief association with the Virginia Indian girl
Pocahontas during an altercation with the Powhatan Confederacy and
her father, Chief Powhatan. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony
(based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and
led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake
Bay.
His books and maps may have been as important as his deeds, as they
encouraged more Englishmen and women to follow the trail he had
blazed and to colonize the New World. He gave the name New England
to that region, and encouraged people with the comment, "Here every
man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he
have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow
rich."
In 1614, Smith returned to the Americas in a voyage to the coasts
of Maine and Massachusetts Bay. He named the region "New England".
He made two attempts in 1614 and 1615 to return to the same coast.
First a storm dismasted his ship. In the second attempt, he was
captured by French pirates off the Azores. Smith escaped after
weeks of captivity and made his way back to England, where he
published an account of his two voyages as A Description of New
England. He never left England again. He died in the year 1631 in
London at the age of 51. (Introduction by Wikipedia)
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