The Life Of A Jamestown Colonist

Part I of Essay
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 ....

Part II of Essay
.... to Jamestown. As a child in the mid-1500’s, I remember my parents talking about how nervous they were that Spain seemed to be gaining such a foothold in the New World. No one in England liked the fact that Spain was the most powerful country in Europe. The king decided to explore in an effort to find a northwest passage to Asia without going around Asia. England also wanted to steal some of Spain’s riches, or “singe the King of Spain’s beard,” as we referred to the phrase back then. English pirates, such as Sir Francis Drake, began privatee ....