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- ↑ "Prospero's Hen" Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine ; Gookin, Warner F. and Barbour, Philip L., Bartholomew Gosnold: Discoverer and Planter, Archon Books, Hamden CT, 1963.
- ↑ "Prospero's Hen" Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Archer, Gabriel (1912). Ed. Frances Healey (ed.). GREAT EPOCHS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The Relation of Captain Gosnold's Voyage. Funk & Wagnalls Co. p. 38.
- 1 2 "Prospero's Hen". Archived from the original on 7 August 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2008. Gookin, Warner F. and Barbour, Philip L., Bartholomew Gosnold: Discoverer and Planter, Archon Books, Hamden CT, 1963.
- ↑ Brereton, A Briefe Relation of the Description of Elizabeth's Ile, and some others towards the North Part of Virginie.
- ↑ Caron Parsons (27 September 2004). "Art and Exhibitions: Setting sail for a pow-wow". BBC News .
Helping to illustrate the story is the New World Tapestry; which, created in the West Country, is a detailed record of the early colonial period and the largest such embroidery in the world.
- ↑ Charles M. Hudson; Carmen Chaves Tesser (1994). The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521–1704. University of Georgia Press. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-8203-1654-3.
- ↑ Zandt, Cynthia J. Van (2008). Brothers Among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660. Oxford University Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780199720552.
- ↑ Archived 22 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine "A Timeline of Events and References Leading up to and through the founding of Jamestown"
- ↑ Historical Timeline of the Founding of Jamestown, Virginia;
- ↑ St. John's, Newfoundland, in what is now Canada, was founded shortly before this.
