John Smith (jan 6, 1580 – jun 21, 1631)
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"English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Smith played an equally important role as a cartographer and a prolific writer who vividly depicted the natural abundance of the New World, whetting the colonizing appetite of prospective English settlers."-Britannica
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jan 6, 1580
jun 21, 1631
~ 51 years