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Silvester Jourdain ( - ), was an English traveler who became a colonist at the
A plaine description of the Barmudas (PDF)
on WikiCommons Castaways People from Jamestown, Virginia 1650 deaths {{England-bio-stub
Silvester Jourdain ( - ), was an English traveler who became a colonist at the Jamestown, Virginia
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James (Powhatan) River about southwest of the center of modern Williamsburg. It was ...
settlement. During the journey in 1609, a tropical storm caused the ship, the '' Sea Venture'' to be run aground on the uninhabited St. George's Island, Bermuda
St. George's Island is one of the main islands of the territory of Bermuda and lies within St. George's Parish (originally designated the ''General Land'', in distinction to the other eight parishes subdivided as private shares) at the ''East E ...
, with Jourdain, George Somers, Thomas Gates, William Strachey, and other settlers marooned for nine months.
Silvester authored a pamphlet in 1610, ''A Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels'' (later part of the 1613 publication, ''A Plaine Description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Ilands, etc.''), which scholars have attributed as inspiration for William Shakespeare's '' The Tempest''.
Silvester died unmarried in the parish of St Sepulchre, in the spring of 1650. He was the son of William Jourdain of Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Herita ...
, and a cousin of John Jourdain
John Jourdain (? – 17 July 1619), was a captain in the service of the English East India Company (EIC), and the first president of the EIC Council of India
Life and career
He was the sixth child and fourth son of John Jourdain, a Lyme Regis bas ...
.
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A plaine description of the Barmudas (PDF)
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