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Introduction
My mother told my father that he had to take me with him on his next voyage because I was fighting with everyone too much. My father is a colonist. He goes to places in the new world and then he comes home to see us. My father agreed to take me, but I really didn’t want to leave my neighborhood. Coming to Jamestown is really hard for me because I have a great life. I am living with my family. I have a colossal family. I have two parents, my mother and my father. I have seven sisters and eight brothers. We live in a small cabin that just fits us. Our house has two bedrooms, one bathroom, and one kitchen. We also have enjoyable neighbors they treat us just like their family. I am supposed to get married to our neighbor’s daughter, Saraga but everyone calls her Sarah. She is stunning and I really don’t want to leave her.

Rodney’s Experiences in Jamestown

Conditions are terrible in Jamestown. What are we going to do? We came here with so much excitement, and so much hope. We sailed here on a grand ship, thinking it was going to be marvelous to live in Jamestown. However, things didn’t turn out the way we had planned.
During the first year we barley survived. Throughout the summer many of the colonists contracted terrible diseases. Several died including my own father. He only lived for a couple of days after developing a high fever. The day when he died was the hardest day for me in Jamestown. I was so sad that I couldn’t even cry. Since my father died I lived with Scotto and Monroe in their tents.
Hunger was another terrible problem in our colony. Most of the colonists were not skilled farmers. They didn’t like to work the only wanted to spend their time looking for gold. Our food stores quickly ran out. In 1609 John Smith came from England to lead the colony. He drew up tough rules and the most important one was “He who works not, eats not”. Since that was a rule, Scotto, Monroe, and I all had to work so that we could eat.
Under John Smiths firm leadership our living conditions improved. We planted crops, cut timber, and built new buildings. Everyone was so happy, especially Scotto. He adored John Smith more than anyone in the world. Monroe and I were just happy that we had someone to help us.
In 1609 John Smith returned to England because he was injured in an explosion. Conditions worsened when John Smith left. The Native Americans wouldn’t supply us with any food. My friends and I were so hungry. All of us felt scared that we might not stay alive. At night I would lie awake in bed and say to my self “will I every make”. The thought of dieing made me cry at night. Scotto’s father was in bed sick. I was very frightened that his father was going to pass away. We didn’t have enough food to spare and didn’t have any medicine to give him. Later that year he passed away. Monroe and I felt so bad for Scotto he was crying every night before he went to sleep.We didn’t give up. New colonists continued to join our colony. New leaders came to help us. For work we started to plant tobacco, a crop native to the Americas. We thought that it was pretty fun to grow tobacco. It was fun because we did all the work without any parents to help us, which made us feel grownup. People in Europe loved smoking tobacco and bought all the tobacco we could grow. Soon Monroe, Scotto, and I had a lot of success.

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