What is "jamestown"

Usage examples of "jamestown".

So it would have been strange if those twenty blacks, forcibly transported to Jamestown, and sold as objects to settlers anxious for a steadfast source of labor, were considered as anything but slaves.

Besides his old shoes, the crowned monarch charitably gave Newport a little heap of corn, only seven or eight bushels, and with this little result the absurd expedition returned to Jamestown.

He was in Jamestown when Smith returned from his captivity, and would be likely to allude to the romantic story of Pocahontas if Smith had told it on his escape.

And by this time the young girl Pocahontas had become well known to the colonists at Jamestown.

Jamestown, Plymouth, Salem, and Boston were settled under the new flag, though the ships bringing over settlers, being English vessels, also carried the red cross as permitted.

Captain Argall, after parting with his consort, without reaching the Bermudas, and much beating about the coast, was compelled to return to Jamestown.

The next contemporary authority to be consulted in regard to Pocahontas is William Strachey, who, as we have seen, went with the expedition of Gates and Somers, was shipwrecked on the Bermudas, and reached Jamestown May 23 or 24, 1610, and was made Secretary and Recorder of the colony under Lord Delaware.

The first English settlers in What is now the Federated Commonwealths was at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 : From The Story of the Federated Commonwealths, by Ernest Simpson.

Japanese citizens in general who have yet to discover Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, our many amusement parks and plantations and resorts and so on.

Datura stramonium, Jamestown Weed, Stinkweed, or Apple of Peru has narcotic, anodyne leaves and seeds.

In any event, Ben Hill was on leave from the Navy that weekend so we split the dance early and drove up the hills to Jamestown, an old mining town with five whorehouses we visited monthly.

On September 5, the day Saint-Simons troops landed at Jamestown Island, the two fleets hove in sight of each other and prepared for action.

Beggars, vagabonds, indentured servants, kidnapped girls, even convicts, were sent to Jamestown and became the ancestors of some of the “.

One recipe for a cure-all potion was to mix Jamestown weed (jimpson weed) with sulphur and honey.

Thereupon Phillips proceeded downriver to Jamestown Island, destroying ships, tobacco warehouses, and public stores in Chesterfield, Manchester, and Warwick before occupying Petersburg, which he turned into his base.