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John Smith

British explorer
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Baptized:
January 6, 1580, Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England
Died:
June 21, 1631, London
Founder:
Jamestown Colony
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John Smith (baptized January 6, 1580, Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England—died June 21, 1631, London) English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Smith played an equally important role as a cartographer and a prolific writer who vividly depicted the natural abundance of the New World, whetting the colonizing appetite of prospective English settlers. Smith grew up on his family’s farm and was apprenticed in his teens to a wealthy merchant. At age 16 or 17 his adventuresome spirit found an outlet on the battlefields of continental Europe, where he fought for the ...(100 of 945 words)

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