Upgrade to MrN to access our entire library of incredible educational resources and teacher tools in an ad-free environment. If you like MrNussbaum. Advertise HERE! LogIn to. Remove ads. Christopher Newport Biography. This is a short biography on Christopher Newport. He also takes part in the Barbary Coast trade. Near the Azores, he helps to capture the very rich Spanish ship Madre de Dios and sails it back to England.
Soon after, he partners with her brothers and others as one-sixth owner of the heavily armed ship the Neptune. The Virginia Company of London gives him command of its first fleet to sail to Virginia. December 20, Three ships carrying settlers sail from London bound for Virginia. April 26, Jamestown colonists first drop anchor in the Chesapeake Bay, and after a brief skirmish with local Indians, begin to explore the James River.
May 26, While Christopher Newport and a party of colonists explore the James River, an alliance of five Algonquian-speaking Indian groups—the Quiyoughcohannocks, the Weyanocks, the Appamattucks, the Paspaheghs, and the Chiskiacks—attacks Jamestown, wounding ten and killing two.
June 22, Christopher Newport departs from Jamestown for England, carrying a letter to the Virginia Company of London that exaggerates the Virginia colony's commercial possibilities.
August 12, Christopher Newport arrives in London. January 2, John Smith returns to Jamestown after being held captive by Powhatan. Only thirty-eight colonists survive, Smith's seat on the Council is occupied by Gabriel Archer, and the Council accuses Smith of killing his companions. Smith is sentenced to hang, but the charge is dropped when Christopher Newport arrives with the first supplies from England.
Powhatan feeds them and their party lavishly, and Newport presents the chief with a suit of clothing, a hat, and a greyhound. The English continue upriver to visit Opechancanough at the latter's request. September Christopher Newport returns from England with a plan to improve relations with Virginia Indians by bestowing on Powhatan various gifts and formally presenting him with a decorated crown. The subsequent crowning is made awkward by Powhatan's refusal to kneel, and relations sour.
John Smith, meanwhile, attempts to trade for food with Indians from the Nansemonds to the Appamattucks, but on Powhatan's orders they refuse. Mid-January Christopher Newport arrives in London. It replaces the royal council with private corporate control, extends the colony's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean, and installs a governor, Sir Thomas West, twelfth baron De La Warr, to run operations in Virginia.
June 2, The largest fleet England has ever amassed in the West—nine ships, passengers, and livestock and provisions to last a year—leaves England for Virginia. Led by the flagship Sea Venture , the fleet's mission is to save the failing colony. Sir Thomas Gates heads the expedition. July 24, A hurricane strikes the nine-ship English fleet bound for Virginia on a rescue mission. The flagship Sea Venture is separated from the other vessels and irreparably damaged by the storm.
Winter — While the English colonists starve in Virginia, the shipwrecked crew and passengers of the Sea Venture make camp in Bermuda. They build two new boats, the Patience and Deliverance , from Bermuda cedar and the scavenged remains of the Sea Venture. February 11, Captain Christopher Newport and William Strachey serve as witnesses to the christening of John Rolfe's daughter, named Bermuda after the group of islands on which they are stranded.
The girl and her mother both die. March 25, Captain Christopher Newport, William Strachey, and James Swift become godfathers to a baby boy called Bermudas after the group of islands on which they are stranded. They find only sixty survivors of a winter famine. Gates decides to abandon the colony for Newfoundland. September Christopher Newport returns to England. August 20, Christopher Newport sails from Virginia. October Christopher Newport arrives in England. November 16, Christopher Newport writes his will.
About to sail for the third time to the East Indies, he takes his son Christopher Newport with him as master's mate. Andrews, Kenneth R. London: Cambridge University Press, Hakluyt, Richard. London: , 34— Horn, James. New York: Basic Books, Ransome, David R. New York: Oxford University Press, , — Rountree, Helen C.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, First Last. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Sponsors View all. Never Miss an Update Subscribe. Follow Us. About Contact. As Admiral of Virginia, Newport led the fleet of colonists who established the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
He chose the site for Jamestown , led the initial exploration for King James, and negotiated peacefully with Chief Powhatan's Indian tribes. Newport repeatedly rescued the colonists from famine with four resupply voyages. When the Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda during a hurricane, Newport organized colonists to build two new vessels for their deliverance to Jamestown.
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