In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, Capt. John Smith was captured by a relative of Powhatan, the leader of a chiefdom based in what is now eastern ...

During the summer and fall of 1607, illness had wiped out approximately half of the original Jamestown settlers. During this time, the Powhatan people, a confederacy of more than 30 Indigenous ...

America’s first permanent English colony, Jamestown was established in 1607 in Tsenacomoco, the area in present-day Virginia that was home to the Powhatan chiefdom. Colonial shipping lists ...