John Smith of Jamestown Summary

John Smith 1579-1631 English soldier, explorer, and adventurer. The son of a Lincolnshire farmer, he completed his elementary school education before being apprenticed to a merchant in Cambridgeshire.... Read more

John Smith Born January 1580, Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England Died June, 1631, London, England Even before he reached North America, John Smith had led a life full of adventure and danger. His lege... Read more

John Smith (ca. 1580-1631), English colonist in America, was president of the governing council of Jamestown, Va. His writings about Virginia and New England have considerable historical and literary ... Read more

Captain John Smith was born in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, sometime at the end of 1579 or the beginning of 1580, the son of George and Alice Smith. He was baptized on 9 January 1580 and died at... Read more

One of the most popular English rhetoric books of the seventeenth century, John Smith's The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd (dated 1657 but probably published in 1656) was printed in ten editions over... Read more

Virginians know that Captain John Smith was one of the first American heroes. But because he was a proud and boastful man, it is difficult to know which parts of his life are fact and which are fictio... Read more