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Fragment A. 1613. SAMUEL PURCHAS'S First Mention of John Smith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Fragment A. 1613.
SAMUEL PURCHAS'S
First Mention of John Smith

[Source: Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations Of The World ...
(London, 1613), 632.]

Purchas's first mention of John Smith is in a marginal note referring to "the
plantation by the present Adventurers": "Relation [of] Captain Smith. M.S.
[manuscript], and W[illiam] S[ymonds]. M.S." Then in the next paragraph,
following a summary of the jealous rivalries that "did even then becloude
that morning Starre," he added:

A cleare skie did afterwards appeare in their agreement on the choise
of Captaine Smith for their President, who having before fallen into
the hands of the Virginians, had beene presented Prisoner to Powhatan,
where hee tooke advantage by that disadvantage, to acquaint
himselfe with the State and condition of the Countrie and Inhabitants.