Author:John Smith (1580-1631)

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John Smith
(1580–1631)

John Smith

Works

• To the Most High and virtuous princess, Queen Anne of Great Britain (1616)

• A true relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that collony, which is now resident in the south part thereof, till the last returne from thence (1608) anon.

• A map of Virginia: With a description of the countrey, the commodities, people, government and religion (1612) (external scan)

• A description of New England: or The obseruations, and discoueries, of Captain Iohn Smith (admirall of that country) in the north of America, in the year of our Lord 1614 (1616) (transcription project)

• New Englands trials: Declaring the successe of 26. ships employed thither within these sixe yeares: with the benefit of that countrey by sea and land: and how to build threescore sayle of good ships, to make a little navie royall (1620)

• The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning, Ano: 1584, to this present 1624 (1624) (external scan)

• An accidence or The path-way to experience: Necessary for all young sea-men, or those that are desirous to goe to sea, briefly shewing the phrases, offices, and words of command, belonging to the building, ridging, and sayling, a man of warre; and how to manage a fight at sea (1626)

• The true travels, adventures, and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America from Anno Domini 1593 to 1629 (1630)

• Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New-England, or any where, or, The path-way to experience to erect a plantation (1631) (external scan)

Works about Smith

• "Smith, John," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Smith, John (1580-1631)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Captain John Smith (1579-1631)" in The Beginner's American History by David H. Montgomery (1904).
• "Smith, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Smith, John," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)