1/22/2025
2:00pm - 2:30pm
That “Pestilent Enemie,” William Claiborne
Location: Memorial Church
The year is 1673 as you visit William Claiborne, the first Surveyor General of Virginia. Now retired from public office, he will recount his arrival at Jamestown fifty years prior and the challenges he faced in accomplishing the first land surveys in English North America. Claiborne rose rapidly in the colonial government and, in 1631, became the first Englishman to establish a Native American trading post in the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay. But since 1634, these efforts — and his legacy — have been stymied as Lord Baltimore planted a new colony north of the Potomac and brought Claiborne into a bloody conflict with the newest residents of the Maryland colony . . .
Included with paid admission to the Preservation Virginia portion of Historic Jamestowne.
