Quotes from Kieran Doherty

Remarkably, all 150 men, women, and children on the ship were eventually brought safely to shore. Even the ship's dog was saved.

the Virginia Company had floated an idea that all English pirates might be pardoned if they agreed to move to Virginia.

Johnson praised Virginia for its uncivilized yet friendly natives and argued that the English settlers' goals included the betterment of the savages. Of course, the truth was different, as Johnson and Gray might have known had they visited the land they praised so lavishly. The English had high enough purposes, to be sure, but they were all too ready to take by force any land they wished. The Powhatan people, of course, were just as ready to fight to protect their way of life.

the death toll on the Diamond and the Swallow was terrible. Between the two vessels, thirty-two passengers and crew—well over 10 percent of their total complement—had died at sea, their bodies thrown overboard. Somehow, during the crossing, perhaps at the height of the storm, two of the women passengers gave birth to babies. Not surprisingly given the circumstances, the two children, both boys, died in mid-Atlantic.

By that time, English merchants had experience taking profits from foreign trade through the formation of joint stock companies like the Muscovy Company. Now they hoped to do the same in Virginia.

Virginia was seen as a convenient place to send the poor and unemployed and to dump some of the criminals who infested London's crowded streets and alleyways.

it is unlikely that any of the ships' captains seriously considered steering their damaged and undermanned vessels to either Barbuda or the Bermudas in search of the Sea Venture. Instead, the storm would have convinced all the captains to steer for Virginia and what they hoped and prayed would be safety.

spoke from the open-air Paul Cross pulpit at St. Paul's Church, praising the Virginia Company's plans to bring the Christian faith to heathen natives of Virginia.19

More than 650 individuals became shareholders along with fifty-six city companies and guilds, including the Company of Drapers, the Company of Grocers, the Company of Brewers, and the Company of Poulterers.

All any on the flagship could do was hope the other vessels were safe, pray that the other ships and their crews and passengers would survive the storm.

The passengers and crew gathered each morning and evening and each Sunday for prayers,

Sir Thomas Smythe, a wealthy London merchant, who would be designated the company treasurer. And, like a modern-day public company, the new Virginia Company would be open to any investor, large or small, who wanted to become an "adventurer" by "venturing" money for profits.

800 people of all sortes went in these 6 shippes