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Famous Individuals |
  Captain
John Smith arrived May, 1607 and was named to the first council. On
September 10, 1608 the Council elected him Governor of Virginia for a one-year
term. He was an able leader who understood both the Indians and the settlers'
needs and the colony prospered. Captain Smith returned to England in October,
1609 following an accidental gunpowder burn and became Virginia's most
effective propagandist and historian.(1)
Pocahontas
was the daughter of Powhatan, who ruled the Powhatan Confederacy. Captain
John Smith believed she had saved his life twice during the colony's first
years. In 1608-1609 she was a frequent and welcome visitor to Jamestown.
Her marriage to John Rolfe in April, 1614 helped to establish peaceful
relations between the Indians and the English.(1)
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 This
large wooden cross was
erected by the Association
for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in 1957in memory of those
early settlers, the founders of this nation, who died at Jamestown during
the first perilous years of the colony. Their bodies lie along the ridge
beyond this cross, in the earliest known burial ground of the English in
America.(1) |
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Footnotes: 1. Association of the Preservation of Virginia Antiques, see web site:
http://www.apva.org/history/index.html.
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