Jamestowne Society Fall Meeting Presentation 2008



	Fall 2008 Meeting Presentation Captain John Smith's Chesapeake Bay
	by Dr. Kent Mountford November 8, 2008
	The Commonwealth Club, Richmond, Virginia



	Dr. Kent Mountford, noted author and researcher, presented information on how the Chesapeake Bay region likely appeared to the early English explorers who visited the region in 1607 and 1608. Dr. Mountford is co-author with Helen C. Rountree and Wayne E. Clark of "John Smith's Chesapeake Voyages 1607-1609," published by the University of Virginia Press in 2007, and is the author of "Closed Sea: From the Manasquan to the Mullica." He is Ecologist and Environmental Historian for the Cove Corporation in Lusby, Maryland. Click here to visit Page 2 of the Presentation Click here to visit Page 3 of the Presentation Click here to visit Page 4 of the Presentation
	The photos below are from the presentation given by Dr. Mountford, and illustrate the history of the Chesapeake Bay for the last several hundred years, and provide information on the early explorer, Captain John Smith, and on the native population. *The importance of Smith's observations - they were recorded*

	*Illustrations of Capt. John Smith at age 28, and in England, at age 36:*

	*Categories of the Presentation*

	*Interesting Question About Early Map Illustration*

	*Shorelines of 1608 are not in existence today due to erosion*

	*Almost all of the Chesapeake Bay watershed was forested*

	*Forests provided different layers of protection and support*

	*The Mantle of Powhatan, in an English museum today, has an interesting detail*

	*The shells sown on the ancient mantle are fossils, secured with deer sinew*

	*The early appearance of buffalo in the region may be verified by the buffalo tail used as ornamentation*


	*CONTINUE ON TO PAGE 2 OF PRESENTATION PHOTOS*



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