What provided the earliest written account of what life was like in north america

a diary in jamestown

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thursday the xxith of may, capt[ain] newport (having fitted our shallup with provision and all neccessaryes belonging to a discovery) tooke 5 . gentleme[n]. 4 maryners . and 14 sal[ours], with whome he [proc]eded with a [per]fect resolutyon not to returne, but either to find ye head of this ryver, the laake mentyoned by others heretofore, the sea againe, the mountaynes apalatsi, or some issue

the names of the dyscoverers are thes : capt[ain] christopher newport

george percye esq.                 francys nellson

capt[ain] gabriell archer         john collson.

capt[ain] ihon smyth             robert tyndall             mariners

m[aster] ihon brookes             marrhew fytch

m[aster] thomas wotton

jonas poole.

robert markham.

john crookdeck.

olyver browne.

beniamyn white.

rych[ard] genoway

tho[mas] turnbrydg

tho[mas] godword

robert jackson

charles clarke

stephen

thomas slymer

jeremy deale

danyell

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a. the astrolabe could determine the correct latitudinal location of the ship

george calvert wanted maryland to be a colony where could live safely. because georgia's founders wanted a colony of small farms rather than large plantations, they originally banned under british law in the 1700s, people who owed money could be