Essay Archive - The Life of a Jamestown Colonist
The Life of a Jamestown Colonist
Anne Williams was born in 1570. She traveled to Jamestown, Virginia with the first group of settlers to go there. She, her mother, and her two sisters were the first women and among one of the only peasant families to go on that first voyage to Jamestown. Here is her story as she remembers it. She gives us a historical account of the events which led up to the settling of Jamestown and her feelings about the facts.
The story of colonization in Jamestown is not a story of beauty, pride, or glory. In fact,....
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