Letters written 1623

Question 1

2 April 1623 letter

Answer 1

Thomas Nichols writing to Sir John Worsenholme

Question 1

Nichols asked for

Answer 1

Supplies and things for the continuation of the colony

Question 2

Nichols: “we have not been eating the deer, fish and fowl talked about in England” instead

Answer 2

Ate oats, peas, bread and water
Asking for each man to have a pound of butter and a pound of cheese per week

Question 3

Nichols: women

Answer 3

Necessary to the colony
Difficult for poor men to attract them

Question 4

Nichols: for all his services to the Company

Answer 4

He did not have return to fill a tobacco pipe

Question 5

Nichols: colonists died miserably through nastiness and sickness because no one cares for them

Answer 5

Asking for women to be sent over to help with sickness

Question 6

Nichols: felt the women did nothing but

Answer 6

Ate all the food without working to help the colony

Question 7

1 April 1623 letter

Answer 7

From Christopher Best

Question 8

Best: on food

Answer 8

Short on corn and nourishing food

Question 9

Best: surgeon Mr Rousley

Answer 9

Came to Virginia on the James ship with 10 men
All his servants died
Could not continue without the servants

Question 10

Best: colonists taken into captivity by indigenous people

Answer 10

Only women taken
Any men taken would have been killed

Question 11

Best: 2 or 3 freemen short on meat

Answer 11

Went into the woods to shoot deer
Accidently shot a calf belonging to an adventurer
As punishment had to serve the Company for 7 years as indentured servants