John Smith
1579-1631
English soldier, explorer, and adventurer. The son of a Lincolnshire farmer, he completed his elementary school education before being apprenticed to a merchant in Cambridgeshire....
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Smith, John
January 6, 1580
Lincolnshire, England
June 1631
London, England
Leader of Jamestown Colony
Portrait: John Smith. Reproduced by permission of The Library of Congress.
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John Smith
Born January 1580, Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England Died June, 1631, London, England
Even before he reached North America, John Smith had led a life full of adventure and danger. His lege...
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John Smith (ca. 1580-1631), English colonist in America, was president of the governing council of Jamestown, Va. His writings about Virginia and New England have considerable historical and literary ...
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John Smith, explorer, colonizer, historian, author, was born in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, where he was baptized on 9 January 1580, the son of George and Ann Smith, people of modest means. Aft...
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Captain John Smith was born in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, sometime at the end of 1579 or the beginning of 1580, the son of George and Alice Smith. He was baptized on 9 January 1580 and died at...
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John Smith was one of the most important second- generation Cambridge Platonists to teach at that university during the Interregnum period. It is unfortunate that he died at an early age, for his one,...
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One of the most popular English rhetoric books of the seventeenth century, John Smith's The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd (dated 1657 but probably published in 1656) was printed in ten editions over...
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Virginians know that Captain John Smith was one of the first American heroes. But because he was a proud and boastful man, it is difficult to know which parts of his life are fact and which are fictio...
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