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Captain John Smith was an English adventurer and one of the founders of the Jamestown, Virginia. Smith was one of 105 settlers who landed in Virginia on April 26, 1607. Jamestown became first permanent English settlement in North America on May 24, 1607. On another trip later that year, Smith was taken captive by the Chief of the Powhatan Indians and was condemned to death. Pocahontas daughter of the Indian chief, saved Smith's life. (Pocahontas eventually married the English settler John Rolfe and later died of smallpox.) By the end of the first year, most of the settlers had died of starvation or disease. After that disastrous first year, Smith imposed order by forcing everyone to work. In 1608, Smith almost died while returning to Jamestown; he caught a stingray that stung him and almost killed him. He returned to England with furs (but he never returned to Virginia)