Winter is Coming The Starving Time at Jamestown Fort in 1609
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The Starving Time was a dark part of colonial American history made even more gruesome due to the discovery of a single skull in a trash-pit in 2012. “Jane” as she would come to be known was a teenage girl living in Jamestown (1607) and the scratch marks on her skull would bring to light just how dark and gruesome the winter of 1609 truly was. Men were dying from illnesses, contaminated water, attacks from Natives, but mostly from starvation, and while supply ships would come bringing more colonists they brought very few provisions. All of this, along with the combination of John Smith leaving and George Percy taking over as leader, led to one of the worst periods in Jamestown history, The Starving Time. Death, betrayal, harassment from Natives and eventually cannibalism would all become a dark and tragic part of American history.
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