John Smith

John Smith was born in either 1579 or 1580 in Lincolnshire, England. This was so far back in time that it makes it hard for historians to be able to retrieve medical documents for people. After Smith had been a merchant’s apprentice, he had decided he wanted to live in combat, and he joined the English Army overseas. Smith had proved to be highly successful in the army and he joined in on a campaign against Henry IV, he also went against the Turks in Hungary. When Smith was in Hungary he was captured and enslaved. He was sent to serve a kindhearted mistress who didn’t want Smith as her slave, so she sent him to her brother’s, where he was forced to do farm work. He later killed the farmer who was holding him captive as a slave and made he made his way back to England.
Smith later then met with Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, who was involved with organizing a colony sponsored by the Virginia Company of London that’d be sent to America. Smith was part of a group whose purpose was to make profit in the form of mineral, wealth, and goods.
In 1606 the voyagers set sail. During the trip Joh...