Who was the very first John Smith?

First Chesapeake Voyage: June 2 to July 21, 1608. Captain John Smith led 14 men on his first voyage. In search of a route to the Pacific, the band headed north along today's Eastern Shore then moved to the Western Shore to probe the rivers now called Patapsco, Potomac, and Rappahannock. read more

Smith’s first meeting with Chief Powhatan, the supreme leader in the Chesapeake region, was eventful, but historians have cast doubt on whether the captain’s life was really saved by Powhatan’s favorite daughter, Pocahontas, as Smith reported years later. read more

Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. Edinburgh: John Grant. pp. I:xxvii–xxx. Smith, John (1616). A description of New England: or The observations, and discoveries, of Captain John Smith (admirall of that country) in the north of America, in the year of our Lord 1614. London: Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for Robert Clerke. read more

John Smith was a British soldier who was a founder of the American colony of Jamestown in the early 1600s. Synopsis Born in 1579 or 1580 in Lincolnshire, England, John Smith eventually made his way to America to help govern the British colony of Jamestown. read more