Person:William Strachey (2)

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William Strachey
b.4 Apr 1572 Saffron Walden, Essex, England
bur.21 Jun 1621 Camberwell, Surrey, England
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m. 9 Jun 1595
  1. William Strachey1596 - 1634/35
  2. Edmund Strachey1604 -
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Name William Strachey
Gender Male
Birth[1] 4 Apr 1572 Saffron Walden, Essex, England
Marriage 9 Jun 1595 to Frances Forster
Burial[1] 21 Jun 1621 Camberwell, Surrey, England
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William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 21 June 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America. He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane while sailing to Virginia. The survivors eventually reached Virginia after building two small ships during the ten months they spent on the island. His account of the incident and of the Virginia colony is thought by most Shakespearean scholars to have been a source for Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Strachey, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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