[seaventures] Re: coincidence
- From: clay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: seaventures@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
hmmm. Oink, oink.
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From: Not Young Man goheen <1goheen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: SEAVENTURES <seaventures@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:20:55 AM
Subject: [seaventures] coincidence
Well, in 1609, the Virginia Company sent the Sea Venture and other
ships from England with supplies and new settlers for the two-year-old
Jamestown settlement. But another storm sent the Sea Venture to
Bermuda instead of Virginia. The ship was wrecked there in July, and
that began the settling of the islands of Bermuda—six main islands and
lots of teenie weenie ones.
The commander of the fleet, General Sir George Sommers, claimed the
islands for England, set up a colony on one of them, and renamed them
"Sommers Isles," which is still another name for Bermuda. The herds
of wild hogs made many a happy meal for the settlers there and in
Jamestown.
Then England decided to support the new colony by letting it mint its
own coins. Bermuda's governor had the coins made in England and then
shipped to Bermuda. That makes them the first colonial coins in the
English-speaking part of the New World. What better symbol could be
put on the coins than a wild hog? ...And a cute hog at that!
Note: Sir George Somers name shows up in various spellings Somers, or
Sommers. The most common spelling is Somers as in Somers island in
Bermuda.
Somers and Sea Venture
Sommers and Sea Ventures
hmmmmm
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