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Into History.

com. It's the morning of March 22,

in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia.

Inside a house in town, a woman named Jane Dickinson

comforts her crying child.

She touches the baby's forehead. The child has a burning

fever. Jane looks imploringly at her husband Thomas, her eyes sparkling with worry.

Disease has ravaged this Virginia colony. So far Thomas and his family have remained

healthy, saved only by the grace of God, but as he watches his wife soothe their

sick child, Thomas fears that God has abandoned them too.

Thomas and his wife aren't expecting guests.

The village knows their child is sick.

And when Thomas answers,

there's a Native American man from the Powaton tribe standing in the doorway.

Thomas knows this man well.

He's been teaching him about the gospel in preparation for his conversion to Christianity.

Thomas nods and invites him inside but Thomas's smile fades when he realizes the man

isn't alone. Two more natives follow him in. Thomas apologizes he says he doesn't

have much food to offer but there's something in the faces of these three visitors, something dark and unfamiliar that tells Thomas that they haven't come for food.

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