When they arrived at Jamestown the colonists assumed the Native Americans would be welcoming. This could have been possible if not for a man named Francis West. In 1609, two years after landing in Jamestown, West and thirty-six other men sailed up the Chesapeake Bay to try and trade with the Patawomeke tribe for corn. To force the people to trade, West decided it would be wise to cut off two of the Native American’s heads. In the end West and his men got a load of grain they needed. The only problem was that it would not last the colony through the winter but it could last a trip back to England with the crew. Francis and the thirty-six others returned back to England, leaving the colony with less food and more enemies (Doc
When they arrived at Jamestown the colonists assumed the Native Americans would be welcoming. This could have been possible if not for a man named Francis West. In 1609, two years after landing in Jamestown, West and thirty-six other men sailed up the Chesapeake Bay to try and trade with the Patawomeke tribe for corn. To force the people to trade, West decided it would be wise to cut off two of the Native American’s heads. In the end West and his men got a load of grain they needed. The only problem was that it would not last the colony through the winter but it could last a trip back to England with the crew. Francis and the thirty-six others returned back to England, leaving the colony with less food and more enemies (Doc