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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Samuel Argall was in the employ of the Virginia Company of London in 1609 and was commissioned to discover a shorter route to Virginia and to fish for sturgeon, valued for the caviar.
		Argall looted the settlement of everything he wanted, butchered some of the livestock, and carried other animals off alive, then burned the settlement to the ground except for the mill and a few isolated barns.
		Argall blamed the Jesuits for causing the governor of Virginia to order the attack and Biencourt demanded the surrender of Biard to be hanged.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34149 (1655 words)

	Sir Samuel Argall
		ARGALL, Sir Samuel, English deputy governor of Virginia, born in Bristol, England, in 1572" died in 1639.
		By the present of a copper kettle, Argall induced the Indian in charge of the girl to entice her on board his vessel, hoping to receive a large ransom from her father" but this Powhatan refused to give.
		Argall took part in the expedition against the Algerines in 1620, was knighted in 1623, and in 1625 joined an expedition against the Spanish.
	www.famousamericans.net /sirsamuelargall (504 words)

	NEW FRANCE 1600 - 1614
		Others suggest Samuel Argall (1572-1641), a pirate from Jamestown, Virginia, commanding an English ship for the Virginia Company, was only fishing when he discovered the French settlement of St. Sauveur on Desert Island and attacked for plunder like a common pirate and only later is commissioned by Virginia to clear Acadia of the French.
		July 2: Samuel Argall (1572-1641), acting Governor of Virginia and a former pirate from Jamestown, Virginia, commanding an English ship for the Virginia Company, is sighted in Frenchman's Bay, Maine, contesting the French claim to Acadia which included Maine at this time.
		Samuel Argall (1572-1641) returned first to the St. Sauveur colony to burn it to the ground.
	www3.telus.net /public/dgarneau/french5.htm (3102 words)

	Samuel Argall
		Samuel Argall was born in England in 1572.
		While in charge of the Virginia settlement Argall developed a reputation as an autocratic ruler and was accused of being unduly harsh on the poorer members of the community.
		Samuel Argall, who was knighted in 1623 and became an admiral two years later, died in 1626.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAargall.htm (235 words)

	Thomas West, 12th Baron De la Warr - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1609 he was appointed first governor of Virginia (Sir Thomas Gates governed as deputy until De la Warr arrived).
		He sailed in Apr., 1610, with an expedition including Sir Samuel Argall.
		Argall, on his voyage, sailed into the bay later called (after the governor) Delaware Bay.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-DelaWarr.html (233 words)

	CyberAcadie : Biographie : Sir Samuel Argall (Argoll)
		Argall partit pour la Virginie le 23 juillet 1612 sur le Treasurer, navire de 130 tonneaux, armé de 14 canons et transportant 60 hommes.
		Argall pilla à son gré la colonie, tua quelques bestiaux et en emmena d’autres vivants, puis il rasa la colonie, sauf le moulin et quelques granges isolées.
		Argall dit que c’était la faute des jésuites si le gouverneur de la Virginie avait donné l’ordre d’attaquer, et Biencourt exigea qu’on lui remît Biard pour le pendre.
	www.cyberacadie.com /Biographie/a1_samuel_argall.htm (1750 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Argall
		Arguably, Argall, if anything, is an anti-fantasy or anti-myth, a telling look at the brutality and general incompetence and laziness of the early British settlers at Jamestown, Virginia.
		Upon his return to England, the colony implodes, and the story shifts to Pocahontas, and the more minor character of the ruthless and draconian governor Samuel Argall, whose sole purpose in leading the colony is to enrich himself, and whose massacres of the natives and French Acadians make Smith look like a mischievous schoolboy.
		Argall has Pocahontas kidnapped as leverage with chief Powhatan, her father; however, upon wise Powhatan's refusal to deal, Argall sees her married off to John Rolfe, an early tobacco breeder, then christianized into Lady Rebecca, and hauled off to England to be paraded about court.
	www.sfsite.com /10b/ar162.htm (1244 words)

	The Thomas Jefferson Papers - Virginia Records Timeline - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
		This year, Captain Samuel Argall negotiates a written treaty with the Chickahominy Indians, who are semi-independent of the Powhatan confederation.
		Samuel Argall and Ralph Hamor depart for England.
		Argall had established harsh martial law during his tenure, which had caused adverse publicity for the Company in London.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjvatm3.html (1739 words)

	What Newe Vice is this? - Alternate History Discussion Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1618- The Argall family is greeted in London early in the year by Virginia Company shareholders (Argall is something of a hero, and it is believed that Pocahontas will add to the company's land holdings.) It is believed that he and his family met the King during a masque ball, but it is truly unknown.
		Argall sets as his war goal, under Pocahontas's suggestion, the capture of the two Powhatan capitals.
		Samuel Argall demands the same sort of execution wrought upon all the small villages that had been captured.
	alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=39212 (2667 words)

	Fur Trading Survives
		The Virginia "admiral" Samuel Argall sailed into the harbor of Port Royal, Acadie, in October 1613.
		Argall scattered or hauled off the herds of cattle, stole whatever provisions he could, then set the settlement afire.
		Even though the Argall raids were the first clash in what would become a long struggle between France and England over who would control the Atlantic seaboard, nothing much came of them at the time.
	www.doucetfamily.org /heritage/Furtrade.htm (688 words)

	Newspaper online, Chronicle Newspapers, The Chronicle, The Fairfax Chronicle, The South County Chronicle, Virginia, ...
		Samuel Argall, captain of the Treasurer, convinced Japazeus, a local chief serving under Powhatan, to help Argall kidnap Matoaka in exchange for a copper kettle and other rewards.
		Argall sent a message to Powhatan offering to swap the girl for the English prisoners, weapons stolen from the English and a great quantity of corn.
		Argall sailed to Jamestown to give the good news and the hostage to Sir Thomas Gates, the colony's leader.
	www.south-county.info /articles/2006/11/17/fairfax/news/news04.txt (753 words)

	Pocahontas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Captain Samuel Argall learned from Indian friends that Pocahontas was with her uncle, Japasaws, King of Potomac.
		Argall schemed and by "faire persuasions" sailed away with Pocahontas to Jamestowne in April 1613.
		Argall went to New England on a fishing voyage or to prevent French and Dutch incursions and returned in December 1613.
	www.jamestowne.org /History4.htm (722 words)

	The Failure of the French
		The Jesuits were not tried and executed in Jamestown either, in part because Argall revealed the existence of the French king's commission.
		The priests were carried back to their settlement by Argall on an expedition to find and destroy the nearby settlements at Sainte Croix and Port Royal - and perhaps offload the priests onto French fishing boats for a ride home to Europe.
		Argall had to sail with the Jesuits to the Azores, and from there he went to England.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /settleland/french.html (900 words)

	Amazon.ca: Seven Dreams 03 Argall: Books: William Vollman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The eponymous Captain Argall edges into the foreground in the second part, succeeding Smith as Jamestown's leading spirit; he has the sinister bearing of some Jacobean theater devil like Iago, there's menace in his meanings.
		Aside from this minor stylistic difficulty, Argall is much more reader-friendly than the other volumes in the series, in part because of the greater familiarity of the material but also because the narrative is completely straightforward, without the intentional dreamlike obscurities of the earlier titles.
		He brings you the characters that you'd love to believe really are; he worms his insistent way into their hopes and imaginings so that he can present you with their characters.
	www.amazon.ca /Argall-Dreams-North-American-Landscape/dp/0670910309 (2166 words)

	Genealogy Data Page 595 (Notes Pages)
		In 1620/21 Argall served in an expedition against Algiers as the captain of a twenty-four gun merchantman, and in the June of the following year was knighted by James I at Rochester.
		On Sir Samuel's death in 1626 it was left to John's third son, Samuel Argall, then a minor.
		One of her brothers was Sir Samuel Argall, who was Governor of Virginia in 1617, and another, John Argall, was resident there around that time.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /kevin.young7/n_252.html (2598 words)

	hill - pafg220 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Richard ARGALL Esq was born in Of, London, London, ENGLAND.
		Samuel ARGALL Sir was born about 1572 in, Bristol, ENGLAND.
		Eleanor FITZ ALAN was born in Of, Castle Betchworth, Surrey, ENGLAND.
	members.aol.com /jazzspurs/pafg220.htm (247 words)

	Sir Samuel Argall - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1613 on a voyage up the Potomac, Argall kidnapped Pocahontas.
		He commanded the Virginia Company expedition that destroyed the rival French colonial settlement on Mount Desert Island in 1613, and in 1614 he led an expedition against Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, N.S.).
		He was knighted in 1623 and in 1625 as an admiral commanded a fleet off the Spanish coast.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Argall-S.html (267 words)

	Pocahontas - HistoryWiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When a Captain Samuel Argall learned where she was, he saw an opportunity and decided to kidnap her and hold her for ransom.
		She was betrayed by two Indians for a copper kettle and lured onto Argall's ship on the Potomac River.
		Argall sent word to Powhatan that he would return his favorite daughter only when the chief had returned to him the English prisoners he held, some weapons that the Indians had stolen, and some corn.
	www.historywiz.com /exhibits/james-pocahontas.htm (637 words)

	The Story of Pocahontas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1612 the colony was in surprisingly good shape when another Captain, Samuel Argall brought reinforcements, and went exploring for food among Indians on the River Potomac.
		Argall used a friendly Indian Chief and his wife to persuade Pocahontas aboard his ship and took her to Jamestown in March 1613.
		There she was treated as an honoured guest, and assured that she would be in a position to bring back friendship and faith between Powhatan and the English.
	www.stgeorgesgravesend.org.uk /Pages/pocstory.htm (982 words)

	Taking the Disney out of Pocahontas / Vollmann's imagined tale comes closer to truth
		In "Argall," Pocahontas becomes an American Caliban; starved until she prays to Christ in the English tongue, Pocahontas is eventually coerced into marrying a Tassantasse, or white man. Baptized as Rebecca, she learns the nature of sin from those who use godliness as an excuse to rape, pillage and steal.
		Smith and Argall are flip sides of the same coin, both smart and ruthless mariners bent on becoming the governor of Virginia.
		It is almost as if "Argall" is a simulacrum of a historical novel; Vollmann pokes fun at the form and yet at the same time seems intensely dedicated to it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/30/RV35786.DTL&type=printable (821 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Bk1, Ch9., The English.
		He was a man with no particular credentials other than he was a captain of "an illicit trading-vessel." Argall was "a man of ability and force...
		Argall was set to the task of clearing out the French to be found somewhere north, up the coast.
		Arriving off the coastline of Maine, Argall tricked the Indians (normally the Indians had a distinct fondness for the French and a dislike for the English) and was soon led to his quarry.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part1/Ch09.htm (841 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		Argall, to grossly simplify matters, is the story of two widely known and wildly embellished historical figures, Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, and the less well known Captain Samuel Argall.
		This main story is one thick thread among many colorful others, including stories about British land ownership, class structure, tribal politics, and the settling of Virginia, all interwoven with purposeful though sometimes meandering digressions and expressed in a dense archaized grammar.
		In Argall William the Blind catalogs the contents of the Complete Works of John Smith, a mere six volumes and Argall's primary source.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/02_1/argall.html (227 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This must be taken as a part of Argall's own testimony—that is, furnished by him.
		In conclusion, we have the evidence of Captain John Mason, who was one of Argall's associates, and who gives a history of the Dutch encroachments in a letter addressed to Sir John Coke.
		That letter is also important, as it was undoubtedly the source from which Plantagenet derived the facts from which he fabricated the story in question.
	memory.loc.gov /service/gc/gckb/032/01340136u.txt (188 words)

	Colonial Delaware: Named For Virginia Governor Lord De La Warr
		Samuel Argall names the area Delaware for Virginia Governor Lord De La Warr.
		Hudson described Delaware as "a white sandy shore and within it an abundance of green trees." What Hudson observed was the "low level plain" along the banks of Delaware Bay and the Delaware River.
		The following year, adventurer Captain Samuel Argall entered the bay and named the area after the governor of Virginia, Lord De La Warr.
	americanhistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/colonail_delaware (427 words)

	Pocahontas
		When an energetic and resourceful member of the Jamestown settlement, Captain Samuel Argall, learned where she was, he devised a plan to kidnap her and hold her for ransom.
		When told she would not be allowed to leave, she “began to be exceeding pensive and discontented," but she eventually became calmer and even accustomed to her captivity.
		Argall sent word to Powhatan that he would return his beloved daughter only when the chief had returned to him the English prisoners he held, the arms and tolls that the Indians had stolen, and also some corn.
	www.apva.org /history/pocahont.html (1252 words)

	Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 eBook
		He had associated with him a large number of Scottish noblemen and merchants, and was taking active measures to establish Scottish colonies on this territory.
		The French had made a settlement within its limits, which had been broken up and the colony dispersed in 1613, by Captain Samuel Argall, under the authority of Sir Thomas Dale, governor of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia.
		A desultory and straggling French population was still in occupation, under the nominal governorship of Claude La Tour.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/6653/102.html (461 words)

	Amazon.com: Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith: Books: William Vollmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With "Argall," Vollmann makes a triumphant return to his ambitious "Seven Dreams" series of novels, detailing the invasion of North America by Europeans and the legacy of violence and oppression they left behind.
		"Argall" deals with the British annexation of what they later called Virginia, and focuses on three colorful characters: Pocahontas, Capt. John Smith, and the sinister Sir Samuel Argall, who eventually kidnaps Pocahontas and introduces slavery into the New World.
		The phantom-like, piratical title-character Argall, as is the town of Gravesend which John Smith hales to & from (in "several compass circles") are good examples of the blending of truths and untruths in order to create "an account of origins and metamorphoses".
	www.amazon.com /Argall-Story-Pocahontas-Captain-Smith/dp/0142001503 (3128 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, Seven Dreams ...
		In Argall, the third book in the series and the fourth to be published, Vollmann alternates between extravagant Elizabethan language and gritty realism in an attempt to imagine what the lives of John Smith, Pocahontas, and their contemporaries might really have been like.
		Behind all of these characters stands the terrifying figure of Captain Samuel Argall, who will abduct Pocahontas, burn Indian towns, and bring fl slavery to North America.
		This magnificent novel digs beneath the romantic legend of Pocahontas and the betrayals, disappointments, and atrocities behind it, offering a moving tale of dispossession that will appeal to fans of history and contemporary fiction alike.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52194608 (217 words)

	Pocahontas
		Captain Samuel Argall was the new leader at Jamestown.
		In December 1613 Captain Argall sailed up the Potomac River to a far Indian village to trade with the Indians.
		Captain Argall did not send Pocahontas back to her father because of this.
	www.mce.k12tn.net /indians/famous/pocahontas.htm (703 words)

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