Smith, Captain John

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1. An English adventurer and explorer of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Smith was one of the original settlers of Jamestown in 1607. He was taken prisoner by the braves of the Native American chief Powhatan. By his own account, he was rescued through the intervention of Pocahontas, Powhatan's daughter.

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See Gondomar Savoy, Duke of, 206 Scott, Thomas, 242 Scroope, Lady, 193 Sextus V., 98 Seymour, William, 179 Shaw, Bernard, 238 Shelley, P. B., 114 Sherborne, 125, 158, 173, 175, 177, 240-1, 290 Shrewsbury, Lord, 64, 68 Sidney, Sir Philip, 13, 20, 24, 52-3, 59, 66, 82, 110, 111 Smerwick, or Smerthwick, 37, 109 Smith, Captain John, 73, 79, 84-5 Sparrow, Francis, 146 Spenser, Edmund, 24-5, 58, 107, etc.,

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