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“The Virginia Company sent a bunch of lazy rich gentlemen, who would not work, and so they starved.” We all have heard some variation on this theme in our grade school years. How correct is it though? Let’s join Brian as he examines what Captain John Smith had to say about the gentlemen in the early years of English settlement in Virginia.
John Smith’s Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles -- www.gutenberg....
John Smith’s The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America -- www.gutenberg....
John Smith’s A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Hapned in Virginia Since the First Planting of that Colony -- www.virtualjame...