Biography

1580 · Lincolnshire, England, UK

June 21, 1631 · London, England, UK

Captain John Smith

Son of George Smith, of Ledbury ( 1792- 1871) and Alice Smith (Rickard) (1558-1596).

Brother of Margery Smith (1567-); Richard Smith (1568-); Robert Smith (1570-); Thomas Smith (1572-); Edward Smith (1573-); Sibill Smith (1574-); Joan Smith (1578-); Ann Harding (Smith) (1578-1629); Francis Smith (1581-1631); Alice Smith (1590-1631) and James ( William ) Smith (1631-1686).

And here in Florida, Virginia, New-England, and Cannada, is more land than all the people in Christendome can manure, and yet more to spare than all the natives of those Countries can use and cultivate. The natives are only too happy to share: If this be not a reason sufficient to such tender consciences; for a copper kettle and a few toyes, as beads and hatchets, they will sell you a whole Country . . . the Massachusets have resigned theirs freely.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

"Let all me have as much freedom in reason as may be, and true dealing, for it is the greatest comfort you can give them, where the very name of servitude will breed much ill blood, and become odious to God and man".

I call them my children,", "for they have been my wife, my hawks, my hounds, my cards, my dice and in totall, my best content, as indifferent to my heart as my left hand to my right.