Did the Spanish Catholics really poison Jamestown?

Catholic Spain controlled most of the new world. The Jamestown colony was of great importance in North America. Hancock believes that the poisoning of the Jamestown colonists would impede the British expansion in the new world without the cost of a war. read more

His theory: the deaths were the result of arsenic poisoning, perhaps at the hands of an operative of the Spanish government, which was intent on getting rid of the English colony. Arsenic has been used as a poison for centuries. read more

Conserved silver reliquary with ‘M’ on lid. (Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation / Preservation Virginia) Then there are the other Catholic objects, fragments found over the years at Jamestown that are taking on new meaning after the most recent discovery. read more