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John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609
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John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609

Helen C. Rountree

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"Published in association with the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network and the U.S. National Park Service, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Maryland Historical Trust."

Contents

The Chesapeake environment in the early seventeenth century
The world of Algonquian-speaking peoples
Englishmen in the Chesapeake
John Smith's first voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : June 2-July 21, 1608
John Smith's second voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : July 24-September 7, 1608
The Powhatan River, becoming "King James His River," and Hampton Roads
The "Pamunkey" : the York River drainage
The farmers and fishermen of the lower Eastern Shore
The middle Eastern Shore : land of marsh and merchants
The head of the bay : the Iroquoian speakers' northwest passage
The Patuxent River basin : "good cheer" and "infinite kinds of fish"
The Potomac River : conduit and boundary
The Rappahannock River basin and the Piedmont peoples.

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