When the pioneering English settler John Smith explored the coastline of the region north of Virginia in 1614, what did he call the area?
John Smith (explorer) John Smith (explorer) John Smith (baptized. 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, Admiral of New England, and author. He played an important role in the establishment of the Jamestown colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century. Smith was a leader of the Virginia Colony based at Jamestown between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, during which he became the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area. Later, he explored and mapped
John Stuart (Virginia settler) John Stuart (Virginia settler) Colonel John Stuart (17 March 1749 in Augusta County, Virginia – 18 August 1823 in Greenbrier County, Virginia [now West Virginia]) was a Revolutionary War commander and pioneering western Virginia settler. A veteran of the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774), he surveyed and settled the Greenbrier Valley and is known locally as the "Father of Greenbrier County". Owing to his "Memoir of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences", written in 1799, he has been called "the most important chronicler of pioneer history in southern West Virginia". Stuart's father, the Scotsman David Stuart, was among the supporters of