Fort Algernon
Fort Algernon (also spelled Fort Algernourne) was established in the fall of 1609 at the mouth of Hampton Roads at Point Comfort in the Virginia Colony. A strategic point for guarding the shipping channel leading from the Chesapeake Bay, Fort Monroe was built there beginning in the 1830s. The area is now known as Old Point Comfort. Long part of Elizabeth City County, the site is now located in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia.
After Captain John Smith, President of the Council at Jamestown was deposed in September 1609 and soon returned to England, Captain James Davis, who arrived with one of the ships of the Third Supply, assumed command of the newly built fort in October. It is likely that his pinnace, Virginia, the first ship built in the English colonies (at the Virginia Company of Plymouth's failed Popham Colony in present-day Maine), was anchored nearby.
The fort was very close to the Kecoughtans village, and in one of the acts leading to the First Anglo-Powhatan War, this village was attacked and captured by English colonists on July 9, 1610, who built then there another fort, named Fort Charles.
In mid-1611, a fire accidentally destroyed all of Fort Algernon except for Davis' own house and the storehouse; however, Davis quickly rebuilt it as before.
External links
- Round about Jamestown by Jane Eliza Davis, page 37
- The Virginia magazine of history and biography, page 119
- Caert Vande Riuer POWHATAN Geleg in Niew Nederlandt by Johannes Vingboons
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- Belle Isle
- Cape Charles
- College Creek
- Hog Island
- James River
- Jamestown Island
- Mulberry Island
- Stingray Point
- Tsenacommacah
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- Kecoughtan
- Cape Henry
- First Landing State Park
- St. John's Episcopal Church
- Farrar's Island
- Beggars Bush (Jordan Point)
- Moysonec
- Old Point Comfort
- Fort Algernon
- Passapatanzy
- Wolstenholme Towne
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native groups
- Accomac people
- "Chanco"
- Pamunkey (tribe)
- Patawomeck
- Powhatan (people)
- Powhatan (leader)
- Pocahontas
- Tomocomo
- Nemattanew
- Ancient planter
- Tobacco brides
- John Ferrar
- Nicholas Ferrar
- John Pory
- Nathaniel Rich
- Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
- Edwin Sandys
- Thomas Smythe
cultural depictions
- "Dale's Code" (1612)
- A Description of New England (1616)
- The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia (1619)
- The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1619)
- True Reportory (1625)
- Pamiętnik handlowca (1625)
- Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (2001)
- The New World (2005 film)
- Jamestown (2017)
- History of Jamestown, Virginia (1607–1699)
- Jamestown Rediscovery
- General Court of Virginia (colonial)
- House of Burgesses
- Virginia General Assembly
- Virginia Governor's Council
- "He who does not work, neither shall he eat"
- List of James River plantations
- Roanoke Colony
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