The Bride Ships Of 1620, Colonial America's First Transatlantic Party Buses

Coming up this fall on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Jamestown. The ladies are going to get litigious!

William Johnson arriving in 1607 is one of my great grandfathers. (It absolutely paid to be a Laborer and know how to take care of yourself.) He had a family a couple of those offspring survived the Jamestown Massacre of 1622 by hiding for a few days. May be weird history, it worked. For some.

Finally! The right place to point out some historical inaccuracies in the Jamestown series! The idea that the blacksmith would be disrespected and pushed around is ridiculous. He and a carpenter are the most essential people there, and even back home they are high status. The idea that a woman would curse someone in public, where that could mean getting burned alive? Please. The idea of a servant have a back lacing bodice is too. Who’s going to help her get dressed in the morning? Her mistress?

I visited Jamestown a number of years ago. I totally forgot about the bride ships!

🙂I love this video. A similar situation arose at the French colony of Quebec at about the same time. Maybe you can do a follow up video about the "Daughters of the King" in New Fance😊

Me at 26 standing there, 👁👄👁 Virginia company: “hey farmer! You can have the OLD maid”

One of my ancestors came to Jamestown in 1620 at the age of 14. It seems he was an indentured servant, picked up off the streets of London. He not only survived those Indian attacks, but he acquired about 400 acres I think from recruiting other colonists. He lived to about age 90.

This was interesting to learn. When my English ancestors settled in colonial America, they were further north in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine.

Didn't know about the bride setup, thanks for the very interesting video. This was my beginning in Virginia: John and Elizabeth Moore, 'John Moore came to Virginia in 1620 in the Bona Nova and was listed at Elizabeth City with his wife Elizabeth who came in the Abigail in 1622, in the census 1623, and in the muster, 1624/5, in which his age was shown as 36. (This would make his birth date 1588). His patent for 200 acres on Little Poquoson Creek was issued 3 July 1635.' per WikiTree Family Tree. We're still in the same area, York County, Poquoson, and I now live in King and Queen County. The heck with going west. :-)

This was like a mail-order bride situation

Next you could do a video about the Verdingkinder, basically orphan and poor children in Switzerland that were being sold into slavery to farmers. This lastest until the 1960s.

As being a Virginian I’ve been to Jamestown and the other historical sites several times its always interesting

Great video as always always love the dry humour

Maybe Weird History should do a video on what happened to those first men. The captain of one of those ships had his entire body skinned while he was alive and thrown into a fire by the natives.

I recently read a 1950s science fiction short story called The Girls from Earth by Frank Robinson. It was basically this but in space.

I lived in VA as a child and it was a horrible experience.. I couldn't imagine how much worse it was back then.

A+ video! LOVE IT! What a unique history!

The show Barkskins was like this..it was an awesome show!!!

Please do a video of African braided hair maps. Also I love your channel, I’ve seen almost all your videos!

A woman who could both brew and butcher would be in high demand