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The Institute for Field Research is offering a program for Summer 2024 centering on archaeological / ethnographic research in Old Providence and the Santa Catalina Islands (Colombia) from May 25 to June 19, 2024. See the full description of the 8-credit program focusing on the Native Raizal community—“Pirates and Puritans: Historical Archaeology & Ethnography on…

White Lion and the Treasurer immediately set sail for Virginia, where they hoped to sell their cargo. According to a letter written by the colony’s secretary, John Rolfe, to the Virginia Company of London treasurer, Sir Edwin Sandys, the White Lion arrived first and landed at Point Comfort sometime late in August, having lost its “consort shipp” on the passage from the West Indies. Rolfe described the ship as a “Dutch man of Warr,” perhaps because it bore Dutch letters of marque. �...