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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
Pioneer Press/LA Times ^ | 3-18-15 | Matt Pearce

Posted on 03/18/2015 6:31:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown in Virginia, wrote that settlers ate horses, then cats and dogs, then boots and bits of leather, and, finally, one another. "One of our colony murdered his wife, ripped the child out of her womb and threw it into the river, and after chopped the mother in pieces and salted her for his food," wrote Percy, who then ordered the man executed. "Now whether she was better roasted, boyled or carbonado'd (barbecued), I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of," added the famed settler John Smith.

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TOPICS: History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bbq; cannibalism; georgepercy; godsgravesglyphs; jamestown; johnsmith; revisionisthistory; smithsonian; thestarvingtime; virginia; waronscience
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1 posted on 03/18/2015 6:31:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni

Oh bull hockey.

Salacious steaming pile.


2 posted on 03/18/2015 6:33:20 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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3 posted on 03/18/2015 6:33:33 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: TurboZamboni

So she was a pregnant 14 year old and the baby was tossed in the river?

Doesn’t sound like this was about eating the meat out of desperation and the man responsible was executed.

I’d wager he wasn’t on death row 20 years, either.

#ClickBaitHeadlines


4 posted on 03/18/2015 6:34:12 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: TurboZamboni

While the colonists of Plymouth had five kernels of corn each (per meal or per day, can’t remember) to survive.

They were Godly men and women and did not revert to cannibalism.

When they had their great feast the following Autumn, on each person’s plate had five kernels of corn, so they would remember when times weren’t so plentiful.


5 posted on 03/18/2015 6:34:40 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: TurboZamboni

That was the period where everything was held in common. Starvation is the most common outcome of collectivization.


6 posted on 03/18/2015 6:34:44 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: yldstrk

Scott Walker’s fault!


7 posted on 03/18/2015 6:34:49 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni

Oh my God. You mean Disney did not have it correct?

What is wrong with these people that they could not eat squirrels. Or other stuff crawling around the woods. Its not like there were so many of them that they had to walk for miles to shoot a squirrel.


8 posted on 03/18/2015 6:37:20 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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9 posted on 03/18/2015 6:37:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TurboZamboni

More liberal bullcrap to smear white people. Way too much wild game and natural veegetation, not to mention fish, for them to resort to that.


10 posted on 03/18/2015 6:38:22 AM PDT by Deathtomarxists
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To: TurboZamboni

It was the arrival of two ships from Bermuda that saved the colony. Those ships were had been wrecked in a storm and were initially stranded in Bermuda. There the would be colonists repaired them and with their holds full of sea turtles and birds, they were with difficult to proceed to Jamestown. There they found the starving and dehydrated colony that was trying to return to England. A prolonged drought had also fouled their water. The arrival of those two battered ships probably changed history.


11 posted on 03/18/2015 6:41:39 AM PDT by allendale
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To: cotton1706

The colonists of Plymouth were a very different type of people from the Jamestown settlers. There were some cultural distinctions in the regions.

I tend toward believing the accounts of the Jamestown letter-writers.


12 posted on 03/18/2015 6:42:27 AM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: TurboZamboni
From Crocodile Dundee:

"That crocodile was gonna eat me alive!"

"Oh I wouldn't hold that against him......that thought crossed my mind once or twice."

13 posted on 03/18/2015 6:42:41 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Deathtomarxists

They were under siege.


14 posted on 03/18/2015 6:44:47 AM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: BenLurkin

That’s Entertainment!


15 posted on 03/18/2015 6:46:03 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: agrarianlady

“The colonists of Plymouth were a very different type of people from the Jamestown settlers.”

Oh, absolutely. That was my point.


16 posted on 03/18/2015 6:48:23 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: TurboZamboni

“Carbonado” is definitely a word that needs to make a comeback...


17 posted on 03/18/2015 6:49:11 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: TurboZamboni

I’ve never understood why these people couldn’t catch a fish, a pigeon, or a rodent. Or even rob a bird’s nest.


18 posted on 03/18/2015 6:50:05 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Little Ray

Collectivism in that situation was a necessity. They were a very small isolated society with no reliable trading partners. (The indians themselves were largely collectivists)

They starved because they were unprepared with little hope of resupply.


19 posted on 03/18/2015 6:50:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: TurboZamboni

How about turtles? Clams...no clams in the vicinity?? The recollections of the survivors sound an awful lot like a 4 Yorksiremen skit.


20 posted on 03/18/2015 6:50:20 AM PDT by Buttons12
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