Bermuda

Question 1

3rd supply mission

Answer 1

2 June 1609
Left River Thames for Jamestown

Question 2

7 June 1609

Answer 2

Met 5 more ships in Plymouth

Question 3

Sea Venture

Answer 3

Largest ship
150 people on board
150 tonnes

Question 4

Key people on the Sea Venture

Answer 4

Interim deputy governor Sir Thomas Gates
John Rolfe
Rolfe’s pregnant wife

Question 5

Route the supply mission took

Answer 5

A quicker route that avoided Spanish main

Question 6

A great storm meant the mission was

Answer 6

Shipwrecked on Bermuda

Question 7

Blessings of Bermuda

Answer 7

Had natural resources such as fish and a variety of fowl
2 couples were married
2 babies were born

Question 8

Why was Bermuda safe?

Answer 8

Difficult to reach
Well provided for (natural resources)
Uninhabited

Question 9

Bermuda being uninhabited was useful because

Answer 9

The arrival of the English/birth of next generation established their natural right to the island

Question 10

Spanish called Bermuda

Answer 10

Isle of Devils

Question 11

Why weren’t the English perturbed by the name the Spanish gave Bermuda?

Answer 11

Catholics were superstitious
Protestants were not
Believed in Divine Providence

Question 12

Divine Providence

Answer 12

God’s intervention
Believed God had protected them

Question 13

Survivors spent

Answer 13

9 months on Bermuda

Question 14

Built 2 ships from Bermudan cedar called

Answer 14

Deliverance (40ft, 80 tons)
Patience (29ft, 30 tons)

Question 15

John Rolfe family

Answer 15

Daughter died on Bermuda
Wife died in Jamestown

Question 16

Travelled to

Answer 16

Jamestown after 9 months on Bermuda

Question 17

Official settlement of Bermuda 1612

Answer 17

Charter extended to cover Bermuda
First governor Sir Richard Moore
Sailed with 60 people

Question 18

St George

Answer 18

First continually-inhabited English settlement in the New World

Question 19

1614 onwards

Answer 19

1614: handed to the Crown
1615: new charter to the Somers Isles Company
1684: handed back to Crown

Question 20

Why did the Virginia Company give Bermuda to the Crown?

Answer 20

Thought it was unprofitable

Question 21

Richard Norwood

Answer 21

Surveyed Bermuda
Divided island into 8 administrative areas known as tribes

Question 22

How did the set up of Bermuda foreshadow the set up of Virginia colony?

Answer 22

Dividing the land into parishes

Question 23

What did each ‘tribe’ (area/parish) have?

Answer 23

Each tribe partitioned to principal adventurer

Question 24

How big were the parishes?

Answer 24

2.3 square miles (1500 acres)

Question 25

Was Bermuda a good venture?

Answer 25

Climate and conditions better than marshy Virginia
Large limestone supply for cutting and building

Question 26

Uninhabited island status of Bermuda

Answer 26

Made managing early settlement easier