The Susan Constant and Godspeed , which departed Jamestown on June 22, arrive in London. The ships bring mineral samples, which turn out to be base metals rather than gold. The Virginia Company meets in London to consider Christopher Newport's report and this first expedition to Virginia. At Jamestown, George Kendall is accused of sowing discord among the colonists, is imprisoned and eventually executed. Wingfield is deposed as president of the governing Council of Jamestown and replaced by John Ratcliff.
Food supplies dwindle.
Christopher Newport sails from England to Jamestown with two supply ships and approximately one hundred additional colonists. John Smith leads a party in search of Indians willing to trade or supply the colony with food, especially corn. Indian warriors capture Smith and his men on the Chickahominy River and take him to Werowocomoco on the York River, where the confederation's leader, Powhatan, receives him. She would have been ten or twelve at the time. 1608 January 2.