LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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From the General History of Virginia ____
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My Sweet Pocahontas
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Of Plymouth Plantation
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The Mayflower Contract
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was first printed in 1624, and contains detailed accounts of the surveying of the coast of Virginia and New England by Smith, the founding of Jamestown, of Bermuda in 1612 and of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1612, Smith published A Map of Virginia: With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion. The book provides a map and a narrative that describe the Chesapeake Bay’s geography and the peoples living there.
Detailed explanation-3: -Smith began writing soon after his arrival and in 1608 completed A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note As Hath Happened in Virginia, which many consider to be the first book written in English in the American colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -In chapter 2, book 3 of The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, published in 1624, Captain John Smith writes about the early trials of the original settlement at Jamestown, including his own capture by Virginia Indians and his encounter with Pocahontas.