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Back to SearchJamestown and the Powhatans 11: London Town
Season 1 Episode 69
It is late winter, 1616. When last we left our lovers, John and Rebecca Rolfe were in receipt of a request from the Virginia Company to come to Lond…
4 years, 4 months ago
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 10: True Love
Season 1 Episode 68
This episode is about the kidnapping and ransom of Pocahontas in 1613, the romancing of her by John Rolfe, her conversion to Christianity, and their …
4 years, 4 months ago
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 9: War!
Season 1 Episode 67
This episode is a close look at the First Anglo-Powhatan War, which began shortly after John Smith left Jamestown forever in October 1609, and ended …
4 years, 4 months ago
Revised Introduction for New and Longstanding Listeners
Season 1 Episode 3
After the experience of 15 months, 66 substantive episodes, and more than 180,000 aggregate downloads/listens, I thought it would be useful to reintr…
4 years, 4 months ago
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 8: The Emissaries
Season 1 Episode 66
Again we digress into the question of privateering and letters of marque, and then take on the stories of the two "sons" whom Christopher Newport and…
4 years, 4 months ago
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 7: The Starving Time
Season 1 Episode 65
In this episode we look at the gruesome "starving time" in Jamestown and the resurgent Powhatan war during the seven months after John Smith's depart…
4 years, 5 months ago
Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 6: Timeline 1609-1622
Season 1 Episode 64
John Rolfe and Pocahontas
4 years, 5 months ago
Hudson on the Hudson
Season 1 Episode 63
Here come the Dutch! In the busy summer of 1609, English captain Henry Hudson, sailing the Half Moon for the Dutch East India Company, explores the …
4 years, 5 months ago
Mohawk Down! Champlain invades New York
Season 1 Episode 62
It is the summer of 1609. Samuel de Champlain has founded Quebec and spent the winter there. During that very difficult time, with its Jamestown-like…
4 years, 5 months ago
Samuel de Champlain on the Coast of Maine
Season 1 Episode 61
After a brief digression into current events and a visit to a Ukrainian speakeasy, we accompany Samuel de Champlain to the first settlement of New F…
4 years, 6 months ago