Pirates Privateers Lawyers

This talk by John J Smith offers some reasonable speculation and review a few known facts about the “adventurers” who invested in the Popham Colony and the sailors and “colonists/shipwrights” who built Fort St George and Virginia in 1607-08. It will then examine the contributions made by piracy and privateering that, coupled with royal collusion and local admiralty courts, contributed to the venture we call the Popham Colony, and the pinnace Virginia built there.
John J Smith is a retired attorney intrigued by Maine’s First Ship - both the ship and the organization. He serves as a docent for MFS and is one of its Board of Directors. he is an amateur historian and a confirmed landlubber ,but seeks to expand his appreciation of things nautical, and to share it with others.