America’s first permanent colonists have been considered incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a drought—not indolence—that. Verkkoa team of researchers announced on tuesday that they had unearthed and identified four men, some of european america’s earliest leaders,. June 21, 1631, london. John smith (baptized january 6, 1580, willoughby, lincolnshire, england—died june 21, 1631,. Verkkoenglish adventurer john smith is elected council president of jamestown, virginia —the first permanent english settlement in north america. Verkkogenealogical records indicate that wainman was the first english knight buried in america. Chemical testing of his bones showed he was exposed to. Verkkothe explorers, funded by a group of london entrepreneurs called the virginia company, could not have anticipated the fate that actually awaited most of. Verkkobacon’s forces drove governor berkeley from the capital and set fire to jamestown on september 19, 1676. Bacon died of dysentery in october, and. Verkkosomewhere under the south aisle of st. Sepulchre’s church in london lie the remains of captain john smith, who died in 1631, at the age of fifty.
