• William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 21 June 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English...
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  • Strachey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of John Locke John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British...
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     120–122. Strachey 1612, pp.  26, 48. Strachey 1612, pp.  26, 85–86. Strachey 1612, p.  101. Quinn 1985, pp.  367–368. Strachey 1612, p.  83–86. Strachey 1612...
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    reports which mostly go back to Captain John Smith (1580 - 1631) and William Strachey (1572 - 1621). Usually, only the number of the warriors of the individual...
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    Powhatan and that Pocahontas was named after her. According to colonist William Strachey, "Pocahontas" was a childhood nickname meaning "little wanton." Some...
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  • short wordlists recorded around the time of first European contact. William Strachey recorded about 500 words and Captain John Smith recorded only about...
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    first recorded between 1607 and 1611 by John Smith (as opassom) and William Strachey (as aposoum). Siebert reconstructs the word phonemically as /a·passem/...
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  • Mexico. Smithsonian Institution. p. 249. Retrieved 23 December 2023. William Strachey (1846). The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, approx. 1618...
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  • vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warre, Iuly 15. 1610. The author William Strachey was a passenger on the Sea Venture, the flagship of the supply fleet...
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    influence of Strachey in the play, Kenneth Muir says that although "[t]here is little doubt that Shakespeare had read ... William Strachey's True Reportory"...
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  • the Company, Sir George Somers, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Gates, William Strachey and other notable personages in the early history of English colonization...
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    are made by extrapolations from small bits of data. In 1976, geographer William Denevan used the existing estimates to derive a "consensus count" of about...
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    Sylvester Jordain, Stephen Hopkins—later of Mayflower—and secretary William Strachey) were stranded on Bermuda for approximately nine months. During that...
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    the ball through each other team's line and then at a goal. In 1610, William Strachey, a colonist at Jamestown, Virginia recorded a game played by Native...
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    on John Smith's list of Powhatan words as aroughcun, and on that of William Strachey as arathkone. It has also been identified as a reflex of a Proto-Algonquian...
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    language has been forgotten, and is only known from two wordlists made by William Strachey and Captain John Smith. However, there have been attempts to reconstruct...
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    Richard Strachey GCSI FRS FRGS (24 July 1817 – 12 February 1908) was a British soldier and Indian administrator, the third son of Edward Strachey and grandson...
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    performances of Shakespeare's already-written play; noting a sonnet by William Strachey that may have verbal resemblances with Lear, Kermode concludes that...
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    songwriter and musician, formerly of UK Subs, grew up in the town. William Strachey (1572–1621), historian, was born in the town. Heidi Thomas (born 1962)...
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    Silvester Jourdain, Stephen Hopkins, later of Mayflower, and secretary William Strachey), the Powhatan emissary Namontack and his companion, Machumps, were...
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    Kingdom. This family was originally seated at Walden, Essex, where William Strachey was living under the rule of Edward VI. Later they moved to Surrey...
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    Discoverie of Our River..., printed in Archaeologia Americana 1860, p. 44. William Strachey (1612) records a native (Powhatan) name for hemp (weihkippeis). Proceedings...
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    Discoverie of Our River..., printed in Archaeologia Americana 1860, p. 44. William Strachey (1612) records a native (Powhatan) name for hemp (weihkippeis). Proceedings...
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    Vice-Admiral Christopher Newport, Virginia Colony governor Sir Thomas Gates, William Strachey, and businessman John Rolfe with his pregnant wife. The third supply...
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  • "little crow". The Enos were first mentioned in historic documents by William Strachey (the first secretary of the colony of Virginia) in his early-17th century...
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    Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and William Strachey. A popular tradition has grown up that the group included William Shakespeare, although most scholars...
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    traditions to explore their history. According to colonial historian William Strachey, Chief Powhatan had slain the weroance at Kecoughtan in 1597, appointing...
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    Sir John Strachey GCSI CIE (5 June 1823 – 19 December 1907) was a British civil servant and writer in India who served as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western...
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    successful. Eventually they determined that all survivors had died. William Strachey, a secretary of the Jamestown Colony, wrote in The Historie of Travaile...
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  • Ambrosius Blarer, German-Swiss theologian and reformer (d. 1564) 1572 – William Strachey, English author (d. 1621) 1586 – Richard Saltonstall, English diplomat...
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