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Your ancestor arrived in Jamestown in time for the Starving time of Cannibalism 1609 - 1610

1609, the Virginia Company sent two relief voyages to Jamestown, Virginia:

July 1609: The Mary and John arrived at Jamestown, carrying Captain Samuel Argall and supplies. Argall's ship was the first to use Jamestown as a port.

Mid-August 1609: Some ships arrived at Jamestown with 300 colonists and few supplies.

My 9th Great Grandmother arrived in 1610 aboard the Swan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecily_Jordan_Farrar

My 9th Great grandfather, my namesake, arrived in 1618 aboard the Neptune

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Farrar_(councillor)

The story of the starving time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_Time

The story of the Third supply, probably your ancestor was on one of the shipshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_supply_missions#:~:text=In%20early%201609%2C%20Captain%20Samuel,mouth%20of%20the%20Chesapeake%20Bay.

he obviously survived the starving time, and you know his name, it should be recorded in the Muster of 1624/25 http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/muster24.html

FYI, I am a genetic genealogist and have edited some of those wikipedia pages.

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