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Last time we left the colony of Virginia in dire straits.

Somewhere in the realm of 400 people had died, either from starvation or from attack by the neighboring Poitan Confederacy.

John Smith was injured and he abandoned James Town to what they called the starving time, a time during which the people of Virginia

turned to cannibalism to survive. We're not going to revisit my feelings

about John Smith, but they aren't good.

The Virginia Company appears to have agreed.

They appointed a man named Thomas West, the Baron de la War, as Governor for Life of the Virginia Company.

Now, the Delawar family was involved in the foundation of Delaware, but we'll talk about that when we get to New England.

We'll be calling the Baron de la War, and later his sons, the Lords Delaware.

That's how they are better known to history. There are quite a few names that we're going to be

introducing this week and they can get confusing so I'm going to make a note of those that you really need to remember.

You don't need to remember the names of most of the people in this story.

For example, the acting governor of Jamestown after John Smith left, while he was killed in a poet

hand raid in 1609. You don't need to remember his name, he was dead.

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