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FoRRest K. LeHMAn University of Delaware Settled Place, Contested Past Reconciling George Percy's "A Trewe Relacyon" with John Smith's Generall Historie John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624) purports to be a comprehensive record of the early history of the Jamestown colony, but Philip Barbour describes the Generall Historie as "John Smith's Memoirs, his Apologia, and his Defense, rounded out with information from others bearing on what he considered his colonies" (Barbour, Three Worlds, 368). David Read concurs, describing it as "a profoundly unsettled work" and characterizing colonial literature as a generally unsettled genre: "The knowledge of the colonial world that Smith presents to us in his text," Read tells us, "is shot through with radical uncertainties" (430). One man who wrote in hopes of destabilizing Smith's Generall Historie is George Percy (15801632), the eighth son of the eighth Earl of Northumberland and the highest-ranking gentleman at Jamestown during his stay.1 Percy's "A Trewe Relacyon" (1625), one of two extant records of his Jamestown experiences,2 challenges the authority of Smith's Generall Historie: both texts directly witness events at Jamestown between August and October of 1609, when Sir Thomas Gates's failure to arrive with
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 19, 2007
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