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	Captain Edward John Smith
		Edward John Smith, 62, was born at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent in January 1850, the son of potter Edward Smith and Catherine Smith.
		Smith served with distinction in the Boer war by commanding troopships to the Cape.
		Smith's widow Eleanor Sarah was born 17 June 1861, after her husband's death she remained in Southampton for a time but later moved to London.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /biography/1374 (1170 words)

	§1. Captain John Smith. II. The Historians, 1607–1783. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early ...
		It was evidently by accident that Smith became a historian.
		Smith calls them “examinations” and had them taken down while their authors were in London.
		Relatively an unimportant part of it is written by Smith, but he does not pretend to have written the parts he did not write.
	www.bartleby.com /225/0201.html (1271 words)

	Captain John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (1624)
		Smith newly recovered [from illness], Martin and Ratcliffe was by his care preserved and relieved, and the most of the soldiers recovered with the skillful diligence of Master Thomas Wotton, our surgeon general.
		Smith, perceiving (notwithstanding their late misery) not any regarded but from hand to mouth (the company being well recovered), caused the pinnace to be provided with things fitting to get provision for the year following.
		Captain Newport, being dispatched with the trials of pitch, tar, glass, frankincense, soap-ashes, [along] with that clapboard and wainscot that could be provided, met with Master Scrivener at point Comfort, and so returned for England.
	www.swarthmore.edu /SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/10-smi.html (6431 words)

	Captain Edward John Smith
		Captain Smith put the ship through her tests: engines put to high speed for the first time, allowing her to drift into a full stop were a few examples.
		Smith's occupation this morning was to meet and assist the various officials whose approval would permit the vessel to go to sea.
		Captain Smith had been assured by Chief Engineer Joseph Bell that the situation was under control, and that if there was damage - and he doubted there was - it would be confined to a small portion of the transverse bulkhead and would in no way damage the hull's soundness.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/7937/smith.html (4518 words)

	Captain John Smith
		John White, who was appointed Governor of the colony, with twelve assistants as a Council, who were incorporated under the name of "The Governor and Assistants of the City of Ralegh in Virginia," with instructions to change their settlement to Chesapeake Bay.
		Captain Smith was that man, and if we find him glorying in his exploits, and repeating upon single big Indians the personal prowess that distinguished him in Transylvania and in the mythical Nalbrits, we have only to transfer our sympathy from the Turks to the Sasquesahanocks if the sense of his heroism becomes oppressive.
		Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition.
	www.americanhistory.com /history/CaptainJohnSmith/cjs05.html (2790 words)

	Colonial Williamsburg Journal
		In his 51 years Smith was a compiler and writer of exuberant travelers' tales, an explorer, a mapmaker, a geographer, an ethnographer, a soldier, a governor, a trader, a sailor, an admiral, and the editor of a seaman's handbook.
		Smith reported he was imprisoned on the voyage to Virginia about February 21, 1606/07, just after the fleet stopped for water, wood, and food, because he was "suspected for a supposed Mutiny, though never so much matter." Barbour believed there may have been a dispute there over how to go about the gathering.
		Smith arrested six or seven of West's men, put the rest in the hill village, named the place Nonsuch, and made good the losses on either side, including the munitions and food he had captured and taken away himself.
	www.history.org /foundation/journal/smith.cfm (4374 words)

	Captain John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages - Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail, designated on December 19, 2006, commemorates Smithâs historic voyages of exploration on the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries 1607-1609.
		John Smith expected to go ashore frequently during his voyages around the Bay, so the expeditionary vessel was a small, shallow-draft vessel called a âbargeâ or shallop.
		John Smith's explorations of Chesapeake Bay are chronicled in the forthcoming book John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages, 1607-1609, to be published in May 2007.
	www.baygateways.net /smithexplorations.cfm (468 words)

	Captain John Smith
		John Smith was involved in the Virginia Company's plans to colonize Virginia for profit.
		Smith was one of the leaders selected to govern the Jamestown Colony.
		Smith and a small crew sailed from Jamestown in 1608 to explore and map the Chesapeake Bay and search for food supplies for the colonies.
	www.baydreaming.com /smith.htm (182 words)

	Captain John Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In this strait, the ingenious John Smith, who was present in the reconnoitering army in the regiment of the Earl of Meldritch, came to the aid of Baron Kisell, the general of artillery, with a plan of communication with the besieged garrison.
		Captain Smith was perhaps too serious a knight to see the humor of these encounters, but he does not lack humor in describing them, and he adopted easily the witty courtesies of the code he was illustrating.
		Captain Smith was that man, and if we find him glorying in his exploits, and repeating upon single big Indians the personal prowess that distinguished him in Transylvania and in the mythical Nalbrits, we have only to transfer our sympathy from the Turks to the Sasquesahanocks if the sense of his heroism becomes oppressive.
	www.blackmask.com /books16c/cwcjs.htm (18640 words)

	Virtual Jamestown
		John Smith was baptized in Willoughby by Alford, England, on January 9, 1579.
		Smith soon escaped from the tension of the fort and proceeded to explore the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers and the Chesapeake Bay during the summer of 1608.
		Captain Newport returned to England in the fall of 1608 and John Smith was elected to the council once again in September.
	www.virtualjamestown.org /jsmith.html (928 words)

	Captain John Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The real Captain (a military rather than maritime title) John Smith arrived at the mouth of the Bay in 1607 after a lengthy and rather miserable voyage across the Atlantic.
		There, Smith almost died when he speared a ray with his sword and was stung by its poisonous tail spine; though, in his inimitable style, he recovered well enough by evening to dine on the ray.
		Smith remarked on the cypress trees that were 18 feet around the base and up to 80 feet tall without a branch.
	www.chesapeakebay.net /jsmith.htm (978 words)

	Captain John Smith
		After this event, John Smith was authorized by Prince Zsigmond to wear upon his shield "three Turks heads" in token of his feat and was made "an English gentleman." The generous Prince granted John Smith an annual pension of three hundred ducats.
		John Smith then did some traveling through the areas of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Spain, Morocco and was a privateer in the Canary Islands before returning to England.
		The John Smith map of Virginia was the most important map to appear in print during the period of early settlement.
	home.earthlink.net /~dawise/Smith.htm (1245 words)

	Life of Captain John Smith
		Smith was questioned about his colony and then made to take part in some sort of ritual or trial, after which, in keeping with an Indian custom, he was made a subordinate chief in the tribe.
		Smith was constantly unsure of his fate, and he was convinced afterward that Pocahontas had saved his life.
		Unfortunately, Smith was accidently injured by a gunpowder burn and had to return to England for treatment in October 1609, never to return to Virginia again.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Jthanout/JSmith.html (818 words)

	Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith?
		As Smith's account of warfare in the Balkans has been found to correspond with the actual history of the area in 1601-03, contrary to Kropf's superficial and biased reporting, his general reputation has been restored [5].
		Smith, on the other hand, never suspected that any of his readers would doubt the general truthfulness of what he wrote [11].
		Henry Adams was the grandson of John Quincy Adams and the great-grandson of John Adams, both of whom had a major opponent by the name of John Randolph of Roanoke who was proud of being a descendant of Pocahontas [30].
	vision.stanford.edu /~birch/pocahontas.html (2465 words)

	Captain John Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Smith newly recovered [from illness], Martin and Ratcliffe was by his care preserved and relieved, and the most of the soldiers recovered with the skillful diligence of Master Thomas Wotton, our surgeon general.
		Smith, perceiving (notwithstanding their late misery) not any regarded but from hand to mouth (the company being well recovered), caused the pinnace to be provided with things fitting to get provision for the year following.
		Captain Newport, being dispatched with the trials of pitch, tar, glass, frankincense, soap-ashes, [along] with that clapboard and wainscot that could be provided, met with Master Scrivener at point Comfort, and so returned for England.
	www.unca.edu /~epearson/smith_virginia.html (6351 words)

	Captain John Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Captain John Smith (1580-1631) by the young age of 24 years already had served with brilliance in the Dutch Wars and in the Near East.
		Captain Smith died in London, June, 1631, and was buried in St. Sepulchre's Church.
		Captain Smith stands surrounded by a few of the nautical instruments of the time, including the hour glas s, lodestone, the quadrant and the backstasff.
	www.jamestowne.org /history/johns.htm (1055 words)

	TITANIC - A Voyage of Discovery (captain)
		Captain Edward John Smith (age 62) was born at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England on January 27th, 1850 - the son of potter Edward Smith and his wife Catherine.
		Captain Smith soon became a master seaman, and was considered the top dog in the formidable White Star Line's fleet.
		Her Captain, Edward John Smith was known as "the millionaires Captain" and was one of the highest paid in the world.
	www.euronet.nl /users/keesree/captain.htm (2306 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Captain John Smith & Pocahontas
		Smith would later recount the episode in his books, and although the validity of the story has been questioned, the relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith would prove invaluable in the survival of the Jamestown colony.
		Smith could be a charming negotiator or a cruel adversary and was not above using force to achieve his goals.
		John Smith is said to have taken one year to clear 40 acres of land.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635177554,00.html (1410 words)

	American Literature, 7th edition by George McMichael Chapter 1 -- Author Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Captain John Smith was among the colonists who sailed to England's North American territories in 1607 and established Jamestown (link to site called Jamestown Rediscovery--below), the first permanent English colony in the New World.
		Smith's first published work was a letter he sent from Virginia to a friend in England, where it was printed in 1608 as A True Relation of Occurrences and Accidents in Virginia.
		Smith's writings remain the chief source of what little we know about the Virginia Indians before they were destroyed by European guns, disease, and rum.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/mcmichael/chapter1/custom15/deluxe-content.html (663 words)

	Captain John Smith is Saved by Pocahontas, 1608
		Smith's firm leadership (he was soon elected president of the colony) held the colonists together and narrowly avoided extinction.
		According to Smith, the plan is thwarted only when the chief's daughter, Pocahontas (then aged 11 or 12), throws herself between him and his attackers causing her father to relent.
		Two days after, Powhatan having disguised himself in the most fearfulest manner he could, caused Captain Smith to be brought forth to a great house in the woods, and there upon a mat by the fire to be left alone.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /johnsmith.htm (901 words)

	Captain John Smith
		Captain John Smith was a merchant seaman who lived in Newton upon Ayr in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
		Smith was skipper of, and had shares in, a number of brigs built by the partnership of Robert Ralston and Robert Smith, which possessed a timber and ship-building yard on the Newton shore of the river Ayr.
		Smith's Institution was named on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1857 (see illustration showing the Townhead of Ayr - Kyle Street is on the left, Mill Street top right, and Smith's Road, later Smith Street, runs between at an angle to the railway line).
	www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk /jsmith/jsmith.htm (1088 words)

	Captain John Smith
		Captain John Smith had apparently become a weapon to defile the enemy's sacred cow.
		It is true that Smith reworked the same material in several books, and he became more insistent on the importance of his own role with each retelling, but each new work was also a milestone in Smith's continuing effort to work out a consistent philosophy of colonization.
		Smith himself claimed that he had related the story to Queen Anne in a letter in 1616, but, of course, the letter could not be found and Queen Anne had already died by 1624.
	www.univie.ac.at /Anglistik/easyrider/data/pages/pocahontas/smith.htm (926 words)

	Captain John Smith's Chesapeake Bay
		Smith documented the natural environment, features of the land and waterways, and encounters with the native people.
		Smith relates a story in which, while using his sword to spear fish near the mouth of the Rappahannock, he was stung by a ray’s poisonous tail.
		(Note: Smith’s map was made in 1608 and published in 1612.) For more information about primary source documents and their use in the classroom, see Resources.
	www.pen.k12.va.us /VDOE/LFB/lessonplans/johnsmith/background.html (413 words)

	Captain John Smith's Christmas
		In any case, the captain detailed neither the first December 25 he passed in the brand-new Old Dominion, nor the first that Anglo-Saxons abided on these shores, nor the first that Europeans spent in the Western Hemisphere.
		In his description of these reverses, Smith mentions Christmas not at all, which, under the circumstances, is not hard to understand.
		The year Smith escaped being brained was not, however, the year of the first English Christmas in North America.
	www.history.org /foundation/journal/Christmas04/smith.cfm (2447 words)

	Cecil County Magazine - Captain John Smith Visits Cecil County
		Smith was so astounded by the chief's image, he made sure a picture of him was included in his Virginia map.
		Smith noted that once after he and his crew offered their daily prayer, the Indians began to worship him.
		Smith returned to Jamestown after nine weeks of exploration, bringing back a wealth of information of the areas and peoples he visited.
	www.ccmagazine.org /features/smith.htm (1564 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Save the Bay: John Smith Water Trail
		Between the spring of 1607 and the fall of 1609, Captain John Smith and a dozen hardy crewmen explored the Chesapeake Bay and most of its tidal rivers, sailing and rowing over 3,000 miles in an open boat that he referred to as the Discovery Barge.
		Smith also mapped the Bay in the process and published his map in England in 1612.
		Smith and his crews covered not only the entire main stem of the Chesapeake but also nearly all of the rivers, all the way up to their heads of navigation.
	www.cbf.org /johnsmith (499 words)

	About the Mayflower Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Captain John Smith (c1579-1631) led one of the most adventurous and exciting lives of any English explorer.
		Smith began to organize trade with the Native Americans, and in the process he was captured by chief Powhattan and his life was only spared when Powhattan's daughter Pocahontas pleaded for his life.
		His wish was granted, and he captained an expedition in 1614 which mapped the New England coastline (maps which the Pilgrims would use on their 1620 voyage).
	members.aol.com /mayflo1620/smith_writings.html (374 words)

	Captain John Smith Library - about Captain John Smith
		According to the World Book Encyclopedia, John Smith (1580?-1631) was "an English soldier and adventurer." It was in 1607 that John Smith and a group of colonists landed in Virginia.
		John Smith served as president of the colony from 1608-1609.
		Smith went to England in 1609 (suffering from a gun powder wound) and returned to America in 1614.
	library.cnu.edu /cjsmith.html (256 words)

	Captain John Smith: Prisoner in Turkey and Slave in Georgia
		John Smith was born in about the year 1579, in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England.
		According to Smith, he was taken prisoner and sent to Constantinople to be used as a present to the wife of a Turkish pasha.
		But Smith, true to his brashness and an instinct to survive, killed the man that was his master and escaped to Western Europe.
	americanhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/captainjohnsmith1 (335 words)

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