Samuel collier biography wikipedia

Samuel Collier b.

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He served as the page to captain John Smith , and later as an Algonquian interpreter for the colony. Collier was born around in London , England. Collier is listed among the colonists on the Virginia Company of London's manifest, and was one of four boys in the first group of settlers to Jamestown. According to contemporary historians, Collier was sent by Smith to learn the language of the Algonquian-speaking Warraskoyack tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy , and later served the colony as an interpreter.

According to Smith's accounts, Collier died in aged due to accidental friendly fire of an English sentinel during the Powhatan uprising. Collier's story has been fictionalized in several children's books and in young adult literature. Collier is a character in the book titled Winter of the Dead by Elizabeth Massie. In , a children's historical semi-fiction book by Candice F.

Ransom was published titled Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown, which describes Collier's adventures in Virginia. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.