John Smith: A Brief Biography

Smith was born in January in 1580 in Willoughby, England. Smith’s father, George Smith, was a yeoman farmer. Alice Smith was his mother. They owned land in Lincolnshire. Smith ran away around the age of 15 due to not wanting to be a farmer, but a sailor instead. Unfortunately for John, his father stopped him and made him become an apprentice. Smith joined English farmers shortly after his father’s death in 1596. That fight ended in a truce and Smith came home and resided on Lord Willoughby’s land in a tree branch-made hut. Signore Theodore Paleologue would come by to help Smith with his horsemanship and jousting. John Smith was an author, an English soldier, Admiral of New England, and explorer. He mapped New England and the Chesapeake