Category: Starr, sailed May 1611

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A voyage of the Starr, sailed 1608-1611. Starr, sailed May 1611

The Starr left England March 1611 for Virginia, a fleet of three ships and three carvels (?) under Sir Thomas Gates with Captain Christopher Newport, now vice Admiral of Virginia and pilot John Clark. She was accompanied by the Prosperous and the Elizabeth, three hundred people, supplies, horses, kine, goats, besides "coneies, pigeons and pullen." They reached the Canaries in April, the Dominica West Indies May 9, Porto Rico and anchored at Point Comfort at night, May 22, 1611. The men were listed as "honest, sufficient artificers, carpenters, smiths, coopers, fishermen, tanners, shoemakers, shipwrights, brickmen, gardeners, husbandmen and laboring men of all sorts."

See also

• "The First Republic in America" by Alexander Brown, pg 22, otherwise, Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America (1898); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014).
• Citing "'The First Republic in America' by Alexander Brown, pg 22," this and other information concerning the Starr, sailed 1611, from research and compilation by Anne Shurtleff Stevens of packrat-pro.com 2001.

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