Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown

Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown

Author: Candice Ransom

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0822565188

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In April 1607, twelve-year-old Sam Collier and a group of Englishmen landed in North America. Arriving as an assistant to the solider John Smith, Sam was excited to discover what adventures lay before him in the new land soon to be known as Virginia. But the months ahead would soon prove to be a harsh test. Facing sickness and starvation and sudden attack, Sam had to use all his wits if he were to survive. Could Sam and his fellow settlers trust Virginia’s Indians to help them? Could they learn to survive in this strange new land?


Shadows at Jamestown

Shadows at Jamestown

Author: Steven K. Smith

Publisher: Myboys3 Press

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781947881006

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Sam, Derek, and Caitlin travel to historic Jamestown as part of Field School. When a priceless artifact is labeled a fraud, they must work to uncover the mystery.


Jamestown People to 1800

Jamestown People to 1800

Author: Martha W. McCartney

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780806318721

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"A detailed look at the people associated with Jamestown from its founding in 1607 to 1800. Based on government records and private archives, it provides historical biographies of several distinct groups of people: Jamestown Island landowners, public officials, Native-American leaders, and African Americans associated with Jamestown. It also covers more than a thousand people who did not own land on Jamestown Island but whose activities brought them to Virginia's capital city."--p.[4] of cover.


Our Strange New Land

Our Strange New Land

Author: Patricia Hermes

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2002-05-01

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 9780439368988

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Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.


Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia

Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia

Author: Carson O. Hudson Jr.

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 146714424X

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"While the witchcraft mania that swept through Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 was significant, fascination with it has tended to overshadow the historical records of other persecutions throughout early America. Colonial Virginians shared a common belief in the supernatural with their northern neighbors. The 1626 case of Joan Wright, the first woman to be accused of witchcraft in British North America, began Virginia's own witch craze. Utilizing surviving records, local historian Carson Hudson narrates these fascinating stories." --Back cover.


Sea Venture

Sea Venture

Author: Kieran Doherty

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-05-15

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780312354534

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Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635

Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635

Author: Martha W. McCartney

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 9780806317748

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"From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary" -- publisher website (January 2008).


Written in Bone

Written in Bone

Author: Sally M. Walker

Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1467737313

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Bright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examining the fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen years old when he died. And he was European," Owsley concluded. But how did he know? Just as forensic scientists use their knowledge of human remains to help solve crimes, they use similar skills to solve the mysteries of the long-ago past. Join author Sally M. Walker as she works alongside the scientists investigating colonial-era graves near Jamestown, Virginia, as well as other sites in Maryland. As you follow their investigations, she'll introduce you to what scientists believe are the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, an indentured servant, a colonial official and his family, and an enslaved African girl. All are reaching beyond the grave to tell us their stories, which are written in bone.