Selected Early North America Reference Maps, ca. Sir Thomas Gates is deputy governor until the arrival of Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, the newly appointed governor of Jamestown. The Virginia Company sends the Reverend Richard Buck to Jamestown to be the colony's first chaplain.
Dutch colonists begin operating a glassworks at Jamestown.
May 23 or 24. The Deliverance and the Patience arrive in Jamestown, carrying John Rolfe, Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and others from the Sea Venture wreck. The survivors have built the two ships on Bermuda island from wreckage of the original ships destroyed in a hurricane. They find approximately sixty malnourished colonists at Jamestown. Sir Thomas Gates, the new governor of Jamestown establishes martial law under Laws Divine, Morall and Martiall .