The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's "Maids for Virginia"

Jamestown, England's first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger — from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates were impossibly high: Six out of seven settlers died within the first few years. How clear these and other perils were made to the fifty-six young women who left their homes and boarded ships in England in 1621, nearly fifteen years after Jamestown's founding, is not known. But we do know who they...