#69 Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 11: London Town
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
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 London. They had a young son, Thomas, barely a year old, so this must not have been an easy decision to make.
This episode is about that trip to London in 1616 and 1617. The young family sailed in April 1616 on Samuel Argall’s frigate Treasurer, the same ship onto which Pocahontas had been lured and kidnapped three years before. In addition to the Rolfes, Powhatan’s son-in-law, Uttamatomakin, came along at the paramount chief’s behest to learn what he could of the English. And the English would learn a lot about them.
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References for this episode
Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma
David Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
The Blue Brothers (Tunnel scene)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, Episode 69. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm your host, Jack Heneman. |
| 0:13.3 | And I'm recording this on April 22nd, 2022, in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:18.5 | We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without presentism. |
| 0:25.5 | If you are new to the podcast, you can get a better sense of what we are doing here by listening to the revised introduction for new and long-standing listeners, |
| 0:35.7 | which you can find by scrolling back a few episodes in your |
| 0:38.7 | podcast app or on the website. Before getting to the history fun, I have some housekeeping matters. |
| 0:46.7 | First, there are a couple of items from last week's episode regarding John Phillips-Souza's |
| 0:51.6 | Powhatan's Daughter March. |
| 1:00.3 | I had said that somebody sent me the idea, but that I had lost the communication so I couldn't give credit where it was due. |
| 1:02.7 | Well, it turns out that it came by direct message over Twitter from Russ from Chicago. |
| 1:08.0 | Much appreciated Russ. |
| 1:10.3 | Also, various of you have pointed out that I somehow |
| 1:12.7 | blurted out that Sousa wrote it in 1907 on the 30th anniversary of Jamestown, when it was |
| 1:19.6 | quite obviously the 300th anniversary. Or all typos happen. Second, I have up and joined the Amazon Associates program. The long and the short of it is |
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