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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" title="John Smith (explorer)">John Smith</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gates_(governor)" title="Thomas Gates (governor)">Thomas Gates</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1611–1612</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr" title="Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr">Thomas West</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dale" title="Thomas Dale">Thomas Dale</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1580</span><br />Kingdom of England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1632<span style="display:none">(1632-00-00)</span> (aged 51–52)<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />Dutch Republic<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Anne Floyd</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Anne Percy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">"Discourse of the Plantation of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia" (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1608</span>)<br /> "True Relation of the Proceedings in Virginia" (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1624</span>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_George_Percy_(1580%E2%80%931632).png" class="mw-file-description" title="George Percy (governor)'s signature"><img alt="Signature of George Percy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Signature_of_George_Percy_%281580%E2%80%931632%29.png/128px-Signature_of_George_Percy_%281580%E2%80%931632%29.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Signature_of_George_Percy_%281580%E2%80%931632%29.png/192px-Signature_of_George_Percy_%281580%E2%80%931632%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Signature_of_George_Percy_%281580%E2%80%931632%29.png 2x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="57" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/The_Honourable" title="The Honourable">The Honourable</a> <b>George Percy</b> (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1580</span> – <span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1632</span>) was an <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a> explorer, author, and early Colonial Governor of <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Percy_(governor)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Master George Percy (sometimes written as "Percie" or "Percye") was born in England, the youngest son of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Percy,_8th_Earl_of_Northumberland" title="Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland">Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland</a> and Lady Catherine Neville. He was sickly for much of his life, possibly suffering from epilepsy or severe asthma. He graduated from <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford University</a> in 1597. While at university, he gained admission to <a href="/wiki/Gloucester_College,_Oxford" title="Gloucester College, Oxford">Gloucester Hall</a> and the Middle Temple. </p><p>Percy's vocation was the military. His first service came in the <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Eighty Years' War">Dutch struggle for independence from Spain in the early 1600s</a>. He also served in Ireland. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_in_Virginia">Life in Virginia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Percy_(governor)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Life in Virginia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_George_Percy.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Coat_of_Arms_of_George_Percy.svg/175px-Coat_of_Arms_of_George_Percy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Coat_of_Arms_of_George_Percy.svg/263px-Coat_of_Arms_of_George_Percy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Coat_of_Arms_of_George_Percy.svg/350px-Coat_of_Arms_of_George_Percy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption>Coat of Arms of George Percy</figcaption></figure> <p>Percy was part of the first group of 105 English colonists to settle the <a href="/wiki/Jamestown_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamestown Colony">Jamestown Colony</a>. It is thought he was sent to the warmer climate of Virginia to benefit poor health.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He departed England in December 1606 and kept a journal of his voyage. He arrived in Virginia in April 1607 and recorded the struggles of the colonists to cope with the American environment, disease, and the <a href="/wiki/Powhatan" title="Powhatan">Powhatan</a> Native Americans. "Thus we lived for the space of five months in this miserable distress," he wrote in his journal, "not having five able men to man our bulwarks upon any occasion."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although Percy had a higher social rank than all of the other first colonists, he was initially denied a seat on the Virginia Council. Nevertheless, he took the lead in the early life of the colony, taking part in the expedition to the <a href="/wiki/James_River_(Virginia)" class="mw-redirect" title="James River (Virginia)">James River</a> falls in May and June 1607. In autumn 1607, he sided with the President of the colony, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Maria_Wingfield" title="Edward Maria Wingfield">Edward Maria Wingfield</a>, who was subsequently deposed by <a href="/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(governor)" title="John Ratcliffe (governor)">John Ratcliffe</a>, Gabriel Archer, and <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" title="John Smith (explorer)">Captain John Smith</a>. From late 1607 until autumn 1609, Percy had little power in Jamestown but served as Smith's subordinate. </p><p>When Smith left the colony in September 1609, Percy assumed the presidency of the colony. However, his persistent illness kept him from executing his office, leaving the duties of the presidency to Ratcliffe, Archer, and <a href="/wiki/John_Martin_(Jamestown)" title="John Martin (Jamestown)">John Martin</a>. It was during Percy's tenure that the colony suffered through the "<a href="/wiki/Starving_Time" title="Starving Time">Starving Time</a>" in the winter of 1609–10. "Now all of us at James Town beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger, which no man truly describe but he which hath tasted the bitterness thereof," he recounted later.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Percy accomplished little while President, other than to order to construction of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Algernon" title="Fort Algernon">Fort Algernon</a> at <a href="/wiki/Old_Point_Comfort" title="Old Point Comfort">Old Point Comfort</a>. When <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Gates" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Gates">Sir Thomas Gates</a> arrived in May 1610, Percy happily surrendered control of the colony to him. </p><p>In June 1610, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr" title="Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr">Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr</a> arrived in Jamestown and with a commission to serve as the colony's governor. De la Warr appointed Percy to the council and named him captain of the Jamestown fort. In August 1610, De la Warre sent Percy and seventy men to attack the <a href="/wiki/Paspahegh" title="Paspahegh">Paspahegh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chickahominy_people" title="Chickahominy people">Chickahominy</a> <a href="/wiki/Tribe_(Native_American)" title="Tribe (Native American)">tribes</a>. The force ravaged the tribal settlements, burning their buildings, decimating their crops, and indiscriminately killing men, women, and children. Percy also led the successful defense of the Jamestown fort against a Native American attack and earned the praise of De La Warr. When the Governor returned to England in March 1611, he appointed Percy to lead the colony in his absence. "But the winds not favoring them, they were enforced to shape their course directly for England—my lord having left and appointed me deputy governor in his absence, to execute martial law or any other power and authority as absolute as himself."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Percy's term as Governor lasted until April 22, 1612, when he departed for England. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="After_Virginia">After Virginia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Percy_(governor)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: After Virginia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After his service as Virginia colony governor, Percy returned to England but remained interested in colonization schemes. In 1615, he proposed an expedition to Guiana but found no supporters. In 1620, he sold his four shares in the Virginia Company and returned to military service. </p><p>Percy returned to the Netherlands in 1621 when <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War,_1621%E2%80%931648" title="Eighty Years' War, 1621–1648">war between Spain and the Dutch Republic resumed</a>. He was the commander of a company in the Low Countries in 1627.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He died in the Netherlands in 1632.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage">Marriage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Percy_(governor)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marriage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>George Percy married Anne Floyd.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The couple had one daughter, Anne Percy, who married <a href="/wiki/John_West_(governor)" title="John West (governor)">Governor John West</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ancestry">Ancestry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Percy_(governor)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ancestry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886387087">.mw-parser-output table.ahnentafel{border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0;line-height:130%}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel tr{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel-t{border-top:#000 solid 1px;border-left:#000 solid 1px}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel-b{border-bottom:#000 solid 1px;border-left:#000 solid 1px}</style><div class="noresize"><table class="collapsible collapsed" style="margin:0.3em auto;clear:none;min-width:60em;width:auto;font-size:88%;border:1px solid #aaa"><tbody><tr><th style="padding:0.2em 0.3em 0.2em 4.3em;background:none;color:inherit;width:auto">Ancestors of George Percy (governor)</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center"><table class="ahnentafel" style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><tbody><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="28" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="13"> </td><td rowspan="12" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="5"> </td><td rowspan="4" colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Percy,_5th_Earl_of_Northumberland" title="Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland">Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">Sir Thomas Percy</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">Catherine Spencer</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fb9;"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Percy,_2nd/8th_Earl_of_Northumberland" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Percy, 2nd/8th Earl of Northumberland">Henry Percy, 2nd/8th Earl of Northumberland</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">Guiscard or Wychard (or Guicciard or Richard) Harbottle of Beamish</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;">Eleanor Harbottle</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">Jane (or Joan) Willoughby</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fcc;"><b>George Percy</b></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="11"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="28" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;"><a href="/wiki/John_Nevill,_3rd_Baron_Latymer" class="mw-redirect" title="John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latymer">John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latymer</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;"><a href="/wiki/John_Nevill,_4th_Baron_Latymer" class="mw-redirect" title="John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer">John Nevill, 4th Baron Latymer</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;">Dorothy de Vere</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #fb9;">Lady Katherine or Catherine Nevill</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="13"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="12" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Somerset,_2nd_Earl_of_Worcester" title="Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester">Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #ffc;"><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Somerset" title="Lucy Somerset">Lucy Somerset</a></td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="5"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="4" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;background-color: #bfc;"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Somerset,_Countess_of_Worcester_(died_1565)" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Somerset, Countess of Worcester (died 1565)">Elizabeth Browne</a></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Percy_(governor)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-auto-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-auto_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-auto_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Barbour, Philip L. “The Honorable George Percy, Premier Chronicler of the First Virginia Voyage.” Early American Literature, vol. 6, no. 1, 1971, pp. 7–17. 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(2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926494">"Lord Delaware, First Governor of Virginia, "the Poorest Baron of this Kingdom"<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography</i>. <b>128</b> (3): 226–258. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0042-6636">0042-6636</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Virginia+Magazine+of+History+and+Biography&rft.atitle=Lord+Delaware%2C+First+Governor+of+Virginia%2C+%E2%80%9Cthe+Poorest+Baron+of+this+Kingdom%E2%80%9D&rft.volume=128&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=226-258&rft.date=2020&rft.issn=0042-6636&rft.aulast=Rose&rft.aufirst=E.+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26926494&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Percy+%28governor%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">George Percy, "Observations gathered out of a discourse of the plantation of the southern colony in Virginia by the English, 1606," in <i>Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness accounts of the Virginia Colony, The First Decade, 1607–1617</i>, ed. Edward Wright Haile (Champlain, Va.: Roundhouse, 1998), 100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">George Percy, "A True Relation of the proceedings and occurrents of moment which have hap'ned in Virginia from the time Sir Thomas Gates was shipwrack'd upon the Bermudes, anno 1609, until my departure out of the country, which was in anno Domini 1612" in <i>Jamestown Narratives</i>, 505.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Percy, "True Relation," 513.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrenan1902" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Brenan" title="Gerald Brenan">Brenan, Gerald</a> (1902). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ahistoryhousepe01lindgoog"><i>A History of the House of Percy, from the Earliest Times Down to the Present</i></a>. London: Freemantle. Vol. II pp. 208–9.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+the+House+of+Percy%2C+from+the+Earliest+Times+Down+to+the+Present&rft.place=London&rft.pages=Vol.+II+pp.+208-9&rft.pub=Freemantle&rft.date=1902&rft.aulast=Brenan&rft.aufirst=Gerald&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fahistoryhousepe01lindgoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Percy+%28governor%29" class="Z3988"></span>Note: This source documents marriage to Anne Floyd, but not date of marriage.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Percy_(governor)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Jeffrey D. Groves, "George Percy," in <i>American National Biography,</i> ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 17:318–19.</li> <li>John W. Shirley, "George Percy at Jamestown, 1607–1612," <i>Virginia Magazine of History and Biography</i> 57 (1949): 227–43.</li> <li>Philip L. Barbour, "The Honorable George Percy, Premier Chronicler of the First Virginia Voyage," <i>Early American Literature</i> 6 (1971): 7–17.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrenan1902" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Brenan" title="Gerald Brenan">Brenan, Gerald</a> (1902). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ahistoryhousepe01lindgoog"><i>A History of the House of Percy, from the Earliest Times Down to the Present</i></a>. London: Freemantle. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ahistoryhousepe01lindgoog/page/n269">208</a>–9.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+the+House+of+Percy%2C+from+the+Earliest+Times+Down+to+the+Present&rft.place=London&rft.pages=208-9&rft.pub=Freemantle&rft.date=1902&rft.aulast=Brenan&rft.aufirst=Gerald&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fahistoryhousepe01lindgoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Percy+%28governor%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #bebebe;">Government offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Smith_of_Jamestown" class="mw-redirect" title="John Smith of Jamestown">John Smith</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Virginia" title="List of colonial governors of Virginia">Colonial Governor of Virginia</a> </b><br />1609–1610 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gates_(governor)" title="Thomas Gates (governor)">Thomas Gates</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr" title="Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr">Baron De La Warr</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Virginia" title="List of colonial governors of Virginia">Colonial Governor of Virginia</a> </b><br />1611 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div 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href="/wiki/Edward_Maria_Wingfield" title="Edward Maria Wingfield">Wingfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(governor)" title="John Ratcliffe (governor)">Ratcliffe</a></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Scrivener" title="Matthew Scrivener">Scrivener</a> (acting)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" title="John Smith (explorer)">Smith</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Percy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gates_(governor)" title="Thomas Gates (governor)">Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr" title="Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr">T. West (De La Warr)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dale" title="Thomas Dale">Dale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Yeardley" title="George Yeardley">Yeardley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Argall" title="Samuel Argall">Argall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Wyatt" title="Francis Wyatt">Wyatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_West" title="Francis West">F. West</a></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/John_Pott" title="John Pott">Pott</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Crown colony</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Harvey_(Virginia_governor)" title="John Harvey (Virginia governor)">Harvey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_West_(governor)" title="John West (governor)">J. West</a></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/George_Reade_(colonial_governor)" title="George Reade (colonial governor)">Reade</a> (acting)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Berkeley_(governor)" title="William Berkeley (governor)">Berkeley</a></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Jeffreys_(colonial_governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Jeffreys (colonial governor)">Jeffreys</a> (acting)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Kemp_(governor)" title="Richard Kemp (governor)">Kemp</a> (acting)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bennett_(governor)" title="Richard Bennett (governor)">Bennett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Digges" title="Edward Digges">Digges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Matthews_(captain)" title="Samuel Matthews (captain)">Mathews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Colepeper,_2nd_Baron_Colepeper" title="Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper">Colepeper</a></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Chicheley" title="Henry Chicheley">Chicheley</a> (acting)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Howard,_5th_Baron_Howard_of_Effingham" title="Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham">Howard of Effingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Andros" title="Edmund Andros">Andros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Nicholson" title="Francis Nicholson">Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Nott" title="Edward Nott">Nott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Jenings_(governor)" title="Edmund Jenings (governor)">Jenings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hunter_(colonial_administrator)" title="Robert Hunter (colonial administrator)">Hunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton,_1st_Earl_of_Orkney" title="George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney">Orkney</a> (absentee)</li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Spotswood" title="Alexander Spotswood">Spotswood</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Drysdale" title="Hugh Drysdale">Drysdale</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Carter_I" title="Robert Carter I">"King" Carter</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Gooch,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet">Gooch</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willem_van_Keppel,_2nd_Earl_of_Albemarle" title="Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle">Albemarle</a> (absentee)</li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Gooch,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet">Gooch</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lee_(Virginia_colonist)" title="Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist)">Lee</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Burwell_family_of_Virginia#Lewis_Burwell_I/II_(1711–1756)" title="Burwell family of Virginia">Burwell</a> (acting)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Dinwiddie" title="Robert Dinwiddie">Dinwiddie</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_4th_Earl_of_Loudoun" title="John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun">Loudoun</a></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Fauquier" title="Francis Fauquier">Fauquier</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst" title="Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst">Amherst</a> (absentee)</li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Fauquier" title="Francis Fauquier">Fauquier</a></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norborne_Berkeley,_4th_Baron_Botetourt" title="Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt">Botetourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Nelson_(governor)" title="William Nelson (governor)">W. Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore" title="John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore">Dunmore</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Seal_of_Virginia.svg/75px-Seal_of_Virginia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Seal_of_Virginia.svg/113px-Seal_of_Virginia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Seal_of_Virginia.svg/150px-Seal_of_Virginia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Virginia" title="List of governors of Virginia">Commonwealth of Virginia</a> <figure class="mw-halign-center mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia"><img alt="Virginia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/68px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Flag_of_Virginia.svg/90px-Flag_of_Virginia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></a><figcaption>Virginia</figcaption></figure></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Henry" title="Patrick Henry">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Fleming_(governor)" title="William Fleming (governor)">Fleming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Nelson_Jr." title="Thomas Nelson Jr.">T. Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison_V" title="Benjamin Harrison V">B. Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Henry" title="Patrick Henry">Henry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Randolph" title="Edmund Randolph">E. Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beverley_Randolph" title="Beverley Randolph">B. Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Lee_III" title="Henry Lee III">H. Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Brooke_(Virginia_governor)" title="Robert Brooke (Virginia governor)">Brooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Wood_(governor)" title="James Wood (governor)">Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Monroe" title="James Monroe">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Page_(Virginia_politician)" title="John Page (Virginia politician)">Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Cabell" title="William H. Cabell">Cabell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tyler_Sr." title="John Tyler Sr.">Tyler Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_William_Smith_(politician)" title="George William Smith (politician)">G. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Monroe" title="James Monroe">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_William_Smith_(politician)" title="George William Smith (politician)">G. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peyton_Randolph_(governor)" title="Peyton Randolph (governor)">P. Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Barbour" title="James Barbour">Barbour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_Cary_Nicholas" title="Wilson Cary Nicholas">Nicholas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Patton_Preston" title="James Patton Preston">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mann_Randolph_Jr." title="Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.">T. Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Pleasants" title="James Pleasants">Pleasants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">Tyler Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Branch_Giles" title="William Branch Giles">Giles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Floyd_(Virginia_politician)" title="John Floyd (Virginia politician)">J. Floyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Littleton_Waller_Tazewell" title="Littleton Waller Tazewell">Tazewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyndham_Robertson" title="Wyndham Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Campbell_(Virginia_politician)" title="David Campbell (Virginia politician)">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walker_Gilmer" title="Thomas Walker Gilmer">Gilmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_M._Patton" title="John M. Patton">Patton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rutherfoord" title="John Rutherfoord">Rutherfoord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Munford_Gregory" title="John Munford Gregory">Gregory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_McDowell" title="James McDowell">McDowell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Smith_(Virginia_governor)" title="William Smith (Virginia governor)">W. "EB" Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_B._Floyd" title="John B. Floyd">J. B. Floyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Johnson_(Virginia_politician)" title="Joseph Johnson (Virginia politician)">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Wise" title="Henry A. Wise">Wise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Letcher" title="John Letcher">Letcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Smith_(Virginia_governor)" title="William Smith (Virginia governor)">W. "EB" Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Harrison_Pierpont" title="Francis Harrison Pierpont">Pierpont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_H._Wells" title="Henry H. Wells">Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Carlton_Walker" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbert Carlton Walker">Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_L._Kemper" title="James L. Kemper">Kemper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_W._M._Holliday" title="Frederick W. M. Holliday">Holliday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Cameron" title="William E. Cameron">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzhugh_Lee" title="Fitzhugh Lee">F. Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_W._McKinney" title="Philip W. McKinney">McKinney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Triplett_O%27Ferrall" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Triplett O'Ferrall">O'Ferrall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hoge_Tyler" title="James Hoge Tyler">J. H. Tyler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Montague" title="Andrew Jackson Montague">Montague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_A._Swanson" title="Claude A. Swanson">Swanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hodges_Mann" title="William Hodges Mann">Mann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Carter_Stuart" title="Henry Carter Stuart">Stuart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westmoreland_Davis" title="Westmoreland Davis">Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elbert_Lee_Trinkle" title="Elbert Lee Trinkle">Trinkle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_F._Byrd" title="Harry F. Byrd">Byrd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Garland_Pollard" title="John Garland Pollard">Pollard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_C._Peery" title="George C. Peery">Peery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hubert_Price" title="James Hubert Price">Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colgate_Darden" title="Colgate Darden">Darden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_M._Tuck" title="William M. Tuck">Tuck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_S._Battle" title="John S. Battle">Battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_B._Stanley" title="Thomas B. Stanley">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Lindsay_Almond" title="J. Lindsay Almond">Almond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albertis_Harrison" title="Albertis Harrison">A. Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mills_Godwin" title="Mills Godwin">Godwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linwood_Holton" title="Linwood Holton">Holton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mills_Godwin" title="Mills Godwin">Godwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_N._Dalton" title="John N. Dalton">Dalton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Robb" title="Chuck Robb">Robb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Baliles" title="Gerald Baliles">Baliles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Wilder" title="Douglas Wilder">Wilder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Allen_(American_politician)" title="George Allen (American politician)">Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Gilmore" title="Jim Gilmore">Gilmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Warner" title="Mark Warner">Warner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Kaine" title="Tim Kaine">Kaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_McDonnell" title="Bob McDonnell">McDonnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_McAuliffe" title="Terry McAuliffe">McAuliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Northam" title="Ralph Northam">Northam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Youngkin" title="Glenn Youngkin">Youngkin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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(1585–1604)">Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Virginia_Charter" title="First Virginia Charter">First Virginia Charter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Virginia_Charter" title="Second Virginia Charter">Second Virginia Charter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Company" title="Virginia Company">Virginia Company</a>/<a href="/wiki/London_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="London Company">London Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamestown_supply_missions" title="Jamestown supply missions">Jamestown supply missions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starving_Time" title="Starving Time">Starving Time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Powhatan_Wars" title="Anglo-Powhatan Wars">Anglo-Powhatan Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1619_Jamestown_craftsmen_strike" title="1619 Jamestown craftsmen strike">1619 Jamestown craftsmen strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_massacre_of_1622" title="Indian massacre of 1622">Indian massacre of 1622</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belle_Isle_(Richmond,_Virginia)" title="Belle Isle (Richmond, Virginia)">Belle Isle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Charles_(headland)" title="Cape Charles (headland)">Cape Charles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/College_Creek" title="College Creek">College Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glass_House_Point" title="Glass House Point">Glass House Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hog_Island_Wildlife_Management_Area" title="Hog Island Wildlife Management Area">Hog Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_River" title="James River">James River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamestown_Island" title="Jamestown Island">Jamestown Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mulberry_Island" title="Mulberry Island">Mulberry Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stingray_Point,_Virginia" title="Stingray Point, Virginia">Stingray Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsenacommacah" title="Tsenacommacah">Tsenacommacah</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Werowocomoco" title="Werowocomoco">Werowocomoco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powhatan%27s_Chimney" title="Powhatan's Chimney">Powhatan's Chimney</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Associated places<br /> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_former_counties,_cities,_and_towns_of_Virginia" title="List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blunt_Poynt" title="Blunt Poynt">Blunt Poynt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kecoughtan,_Virginia" title="Kecoughtan, Virginia">Kecoughtan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Henry" title="Cape Henry">Cape Henry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Landing_State_Park" title="First Landing State Park">First Landing State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._John%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Hampton,_Virginia)" title="St. John's Episcopal Church (Hampton, Virginia)">St. John's Episcopal Church</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farrar%27s_Island" title="Farrar's Island">Farrar's Island</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henricus" title="Henricus">Henricus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan_Point,_Virginia" title="Jordan Point, Virginia">Beggars Bush (Jordan Point)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moysonec" title="Moysonec">Moysonec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Point_Comfort" title="Old Point Comfort">Old Point Comfort</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Algernon" title="Fort Algernon">Fort Algernon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passapatanzy,_Virginia" title="Passapatanzy, Virginia">Passapatanzy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolstenholme_Towne" title="Wolstenholme Towne">Wolstenholme Towne</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1619 incorporations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_City_(Virginia_Company)" title="James City (Virginia Company)">James City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_City_(Virginia_Company)" title="Charles City (Virginia Company)">Charles City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_City_(Virginia_Company)" title="Elizabeth City (Virginia Company)">Elizabeth City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Henrico_(Virginia_Company)" title="City of Henrico (Virginia Company)">City of Henrico</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Colonists<br /> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Jamestown_colonists" title="List of Jamestown colonists">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Original <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Governor%27s_Council" title="Virginia Governor's Council">Virginia Governor's Council</a> members</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Maria_Wingfield" title="Edward Maria Wingfield">Edward Maria Wingfield</a> (president)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bartholomew_Gosnold" title="Bartholomew Gosnold">Bartholomew Gosnold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Newport" title="Christopher Newport">Christopher Newport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Martin_(Jamestown)" title="John Martin (Jamestown)">John Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(governor)" title="John Ratcliffe (governor)">John Ratcliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Kendall_(Jamestown_council_member)" title="George Kendall (Jamestown council member)">George Kendall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" title="John Smith (explorer)">John Smith</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other notable original colonists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Archer" title="Gabriel Archer">Gabriel Archer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Beheathland" title="Robert Beheathland">Robert Beheathland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Collier" title="Samuel Collier">Samuel Collier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hunt_(chaplain)" title="Robert Hunt (chaplain)">Robert Hunt</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">George Percy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wotton_(surgeon)" title="Thomas Wotton (surgeon)">Thomas Wotton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Notable colonists from<br /> <a href="/wiki/Jamestown_supply_missions" title="Jamestown supply missions">supply missions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>First Supply <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonas_Profit" title="Jonas Profit">Jonas Profit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Savage_(Virginia_interpreter)" title="Thomas Savage (Virginia interpreter)">Thomas Savage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Scrivener" title="Matthew Scrivener">Matthew Scrivener</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Sicklemore" title="Michael Sicklemore">Michael Sicklemore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Spence_(burgess)" title="William Spence (burgess)">William Spence</a></li></ul></li> <li>Second Supply <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Burras" title="Anne Burras">Anne Burras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raleigh_Croshaw" title="Raleigh Croshaw">Raleigh Croshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dowse" title="Thomas Dowse">Thomas Dowse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mistress_Forrest" title="Mistress Forrest">Mistress Forrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Forrest_(colonist)" title="Thomas Forrest (colonist)">Thomas Forrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Graves_(burgess)" title="Thomas Graves (burgess)">Thomas Graves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Gwyn" title="Hugh Gwyn">Hugh Gwyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hamor" title="Ralph Hamor">Ralph Hamor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Tucker_(colonial_administrator)" title="Daniel Tucker (colonial administrator)">Daniel Tucker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_West" title="Francis West">Francis West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamestown_Polish_craftsmen" title="Jamestown Polish craftsmen">Jamestown Polish craftsmen</a></li></ul></li> <li>Third Supply <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Buck_(chaplain)" title="Richard Buck (chaplain)">Richard Buck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Capps" title="William Capps">William Capps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Davis_(mariner)" title="James Davis (mariner)">James Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temperance_Flowerdew" title="Temperance Flowerdew">Temperance Flowerdew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gates_(governor)" title="Thomas Gates (governor)">Thomas Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(merchant)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephen Hopkins (merchant)">Stephen Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Jordan" title="Samuel Jordan">Samuel Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silvester_Jourdain" title="Silvester Jourdain">Silvester Jourdain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Peirce_(burgess)" title="William Peirce (burgess)">William Peirce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Powell_(Virginia_colonist)" title="William Powell (Virginia colonist)">William Powell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rich_(Bermuda_settler)" title="Robert Rich (Bermuda settler)">Robert Rich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rolfe" title="John Rolfe">John Rolfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Sharpe_(burgess)" title="Samuel Sharpe (burgess)">Samuel Sharpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sharpe_(burgess)" title="William Sharpe (burgess)">William Sharpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Somers" title="George Somers">George Somers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Spelman_of_Jamestown" title="Henry Spelman of Jamestown">Henry Spelman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Strachey" title="William Strachey">William Strachey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Yeardley" title="George Yeardley">George Yeardley</a></li></ul></li> <li>Fourth Supply <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Argall" title="Samuel Argall">Samuel Argall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Bohun" title="Lawrence Bohun">Lawrence Bohun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr" title="Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr">Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr</a></li></ul></li> <li>Fifth Supply <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Dale" title="Thomas Dale">Thomas Dale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecily_Jordan_Farrar" title="Cecily Jordan Farrar">Cecily Jordan Farrar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Spencer_(burgess)" title="William Spencer (burgess)">William Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Wright" title="Joan Wright">Joan Wright</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Notable colonists<br /> 1611–1624</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Angela_(enslaved_woman)" title="Angela (enslaved woman)">Angela</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Berkeley_(governor)" title="William Berkeley (governor)">William Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Claiborne" title="William Claiborne">William Claiborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Farrar_(settler)" title="William Farrar (settler)">William Farrar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Pace_(planter)" title="Richard Pace (planter)">Richard Pace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Pollington" title="John Pollington">John Pollington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Pott" title="John Pott">John Pott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Sandys" title="George Sandys">George Sandys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Shelley" title="Walter Shelley">Walter Shelley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Stephens_(burgess)" title="Richard Stephens (burgess)">Richard Stephens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Thorpe_(Virginia_colonist)" title="George Thorpe (Virginia colonist)">George Thorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Tucker_(Virginia_colony)" title="William Tucker (Virginia colony)">William Tucker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_West_(governor)" title="John West (governor)">John West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Whitaker" title="Alexander Whitaker">Alexander Whitaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Wyatt" title="Francis Wyatt">Francis Wyatt</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Natives and<br /> <a href="/wiki/Native_American_tribes_in_Virginia" title="Native American tribes in Virginia">native groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accomac_people" title="Accomac people">Accomac people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appomattoc" title="Appomattoc">Appomattoc</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Opossunoquonuske" title="Opossunoquonuske">Opossunoquonuske</a></li></ul></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Chanco" title="Chanco">Chanco</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chickahominy_people" title="Chickahominy people">Chickahominy people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamunkey" title="Pamunkey">Pamunkey (tribe)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Opechancanough" title="Opechancanough">Opechancanough</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patawomeck" title="Patawomeck">Patawomeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powhatan" title="Powhatan">Powhatan (people)</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Powhatan_(Native_American_leader)" title="Powhatan (Native American leader)">Powhatan (leader)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pocahontas" title="Pocahontas">Pocahontas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tackonekintaco" title="Tackonekintaco">Tackonekintaco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomocomo" title="Tomocomo">Tomocomo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemattanew" title="Nemattanew">Nemattanew</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rappahannock_people" title="Rappahannock people">Rappahannock people</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other notables</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_planter" title="Ancient planter">Ancient planter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_of_Colonial_Virginia" title="Women of Colonial Virginia">Women of Colonial Virginia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tobacco_brides" title="Tobacco brides">Tobacco brides</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ferrar" title="John Ferrar">John Ferrar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Ferrar" title="Nicholas Ferrar">Nicholas Ferrar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Laydon" title="Virginia Laydon">Virginia Laydon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Pory" title="John Pory">John Pory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Rich_(merchant_adventurer)" title="Nathaniel Rich (merchant adventurer)">Nathaniel Rich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Rich,_2nd_Earl_of_Warwick" title="Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick">Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Sandys_(1561%E2%80%931629)" title="Edwin Sandys (1561–1629)">Edwin Sandys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Smythe" title="Thomas Smythe">Thomas Smythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Tyndall_(surveyor)" title="Robert Tyndall (surveyor)">Robert Tyndall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_de_Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga_y_de_la_Cueva" title="Pedro de Zúñiga y de la Cueva">Pedro de Zúñiga y de la Cueva</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Written accounts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Dale%27s_Code" title="Dale's Code">Dale's Code</a>" (1612)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Description_of_New_England" title="A Description of New England">A Description of New England</a></i> (1616)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Historie_of_Travaile_Into_Virginia_Britannia" title="The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia">The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia</a></i> (1619)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Generall_Historie_of_Virginia,_New-England,_and_the_Summer_Isles" title="The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles">The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles</a></i> (1619)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/True_Reportory" title="True Reportory">True Reportory</a></i> (1625)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pami%C4%99tnik_handlowca" title="Pamiętnik handlowca">Pamiętnik handlowca</a></i> (1625)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cultural depictions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Po-ca-hon-tas,_or_The_Gentle_Savage" title="Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage">Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage</a></i> (1855)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pocahontas_(1910_film)" title="Pocahontas (1910 film)">Pocahontas (1910 film)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wives_of_Jamestown" title="The Wives of Jamestown">The Wives of Jamestown</a></i> (1913)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Smith_and_Poker-Huntas" title="Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas">Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_John_Smith_and_Pocahontas" title="Captain John Smith and Pocahontas">Captain John Smith and Pocahontas</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Argall:_The_True_Story_of_Pocahontas_and_Captain_John_Smith" title="Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith">Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_World_(2005_film)" title="The New World (2005 film)">The New World (2005 film)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jamestown:_Legend_of_the_Lost_Colony" title="Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony">Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jamestown_(TV_series)" title="Jamestown (TV series)">Jamestown</a></i> (2017)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Associated ships</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Susan_Constant" title="Susan Constant">Susan Constant</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Godspeed_(ship)" title="Godspeed (ship)">Godspeed</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Discovery_(1602_ship)" title="Discovery (1602 ship)">Discovery</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mary_and_John" title="Mary and John">Mary and John</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sea_Venture" title="Sea Venture">Sea Venture</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Virginia_(pinnace)" title="Virginia (pinnace)">Virginia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/White_Lion_(privateer)" title="White Lion (privateer)">White Lion</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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