When was john smith born
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John Smith (explorer)
English soldier, explorer and writer (1580–1631)
"Captain John Smith" redirects here. For other people named John Smith, see John Smith.
John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author. Following his return to England from a life as a soldier of fortune and as a slave,[1] he played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony between September 1608 and August 1609, and he led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, during which he became the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area. Later, he explored and mapped the coast of New England. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely.
Jamestown was established on May 14, 1607.[2] Smith trained the first settlers to work at farming and fis
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His Education
- John Smith was born in January of 1580.
- Period: Jan 15, 1580 to
John Smith
- His Childhood was mostly spent away from home.
- At age 15, he leaft school to be a merchant's apprentice for Thomas Sendall.
- John Smith joined the Australian war against the Turks.
- John Smith was sold as a slave but he escaped by killing his master.
- John Smith joined the Virginia Company while people were looking for the NW passage.
- Three ships left England to sail to Virginia
- The journey to Jamestown was sickening, but it was worth the agony.
- The Powhatans were a Indian tribe that built a relationship with the colonists.
- Pocahantas was the daughter of Powhatan, and she saved John when the Powhatans were going to hurt him.
- When John was on exploring New England, gun powder exploded and John got serverely hurt.
- John wrote six books, A Map of Virginia, A Description of New England, True Travles, The General History of Virginia, New England, and Summer Isles.
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Early Years
Smith was born in Lincolnshire, England, the son of George Smith, a farmer, and Alice Rickard Smith. The eldest of five boys and a girl, he was baptized at Saint Helen’s Church in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, on January 9, 1580. John Smith may have been a student of the Puritan reformer Francis Marbury (father of Anne Hutchinson) before attending the King Edward VI Grammar School in Louth. In 1595 Smith was apprenticed to the wealthy merchant Thomas Sendall in King’s Lynn. This seems to have been an amicable arrangement, but after Smith’s father died in April 1596 and his mother remarried, Smith terminated his apprenticeship and left England.
Looking to travel, he served as a soldier in the Low Countries under Captain Joseph Duxbury until about 1599; he then joined a company of English volunteers as an attendant to Peregrine Bertie, thirteenth baron Willoughby of Eresby, and traveled to France as part of forces allied with Henri IV, the Huguenot (Protestant) claimant to the throne. After returning to England, Smith became acquainted with an Italian no
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