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Online Sources: Captain John Smith

John Smith's 1616 Letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain
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Letter describing Smith being saved by Pocahontas
John Smith's 1616 Letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain
Speech by Powhatan, as recorded by John Smith, 1609

Book Sources: Captain John Smith

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A Description of New England by John Smith
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or, observations and discoveries in the north of America in the year of Our Lord 1614, with the success of six ships that went the next year, 1615
A History of the Settlement of Virginia
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Selections from his Works, ed. by E. Arber, 1884
A True Relation of Virginia by John Smith
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Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New England, or anywhere by John Smith
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or, The pathway to erect a plantation. By Captian John Smith...With a fac-simile of Smith's map of New England, with additions and corrections as published in 1635.
Capt. John Smith, of Willoughby by Alfoed, Lincolnshire by John Smith
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President of Virginia and admiral of New England ; works, 1608-1631 / Edited by Edward Arber
Captain John Smith's circular or prospectus of his Generall historie of Virginia by John Smith
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New-England, and the Summer Isles; reproduced from the only known copy in the collection of the Society of antiquaries, London, with notes.
Captain John Smith: A Select edition of his Writings by John E. Smith
Call Number: F229 .S592 1988
ISBN: 0807817783
Karen O. Kupperman (Editor)
The Capture and Release of Captain John Smith by John Smith
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including his rescue from death by Pocahontas : in his own words
The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631 by John E. Smith
Call Number: F229.S652 C65 1986
ISBN: 080781525X
Philip L. Barbour (Editor); Thad W. Tate (Editor)
The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles by John Smith
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The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles by John Smith
Call Number: F229.S652 G3
The Historye of the Bermudaes or Summer Islands by John Smith
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Edited from a ms. in the Sloane Collection, British Museum, by General Sir J. Henry Lefroy
The Last Will and Testament of Captain John Smith by John Smith
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with some additional memoranda relating to him.
The trve travels, adventures and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith by John Smith
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in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: beginning about the yeere 1593, and continued to this present 1629 ... From the London ed. of 1629.
Travels and Works of Captain John Smith by John Smith
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Edited by Edward Arber
Writings (Captain John Smith) by John E. Smith; James Horn (Editor)
Call Number: F229 .S592 2007
ISBN: 1598530011
with other narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the first English settlement of America / John Smith ; [James Horn selected the texts and wrote the notes for this volume].

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