John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609

The Chesapeake environment in the early seventeenth century

The world of Algonquian-speaking peoples

Englishmen in the Chesapeake

John Smith's first voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : June 2-July 21, 1608

John Smith's second voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : July 24-September 7, 1608

The Powhatan River, becoming "King James His River," and Hampton Roads

The "Pamunkey" : the York River drainage

The farmers and fishermen of the lower Eastern Shore

The middle Eastern Shore : land of marsh and merchants

The head of the bay : the Iroquoian speakers' northwest passage

The Patuxent River basin : "good cheer" and "infinite kinds of fish"

The Potomac River : conduit and boundary

The Rappahannock River basin and the Piedmont peoples.