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{{Infobox person
| birth_date = [[Circa|c.]] 1595
| birth_place = [[London]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1622|1595}}
| death_place = [[Virginia Colony]], British America
| death_cause = [[Friendly fire]]<br>Powhatan Uprising
| known_for = Page to captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]], interpreter in Early America, Jamestown colonist
}}
'''Samuel Collier''' (b. around 1595, d. 1622) was an English boy who arrived in [[Jamestown, Virginia]], in 1607 aboard the [[Susan Constant]], one of the three founding ships. He served as the page to captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]], and later as an [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] interpreter for the colony.
==Early life==
Collier was born around 1595 in [[London]], England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Price |first=David A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_EFbS_7fFcYC&newbks=0&hl=en |title=Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation |date=2007-12-18 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-42670-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=JR1225B {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/archaeology/young-male-settler/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Jamestown colonist ===
Collier is listed among the 104 colonists on the [[Virginia Company]] of London's manifest, and was one of four boys in the first group of settlers to Jamestown.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kay |first=Alan N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPaugpO26i4C&newbks=0&hl=en |title=Jamestown Journey |date= |publisher=Thomas Publications |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-939631-53-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Billings |first=Warren M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x...c=frontcover&pg=PA33&dq=Samuell+Collier&hl=en |title=The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) |date=2008 |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com |isbn=978-1-4429-6084-8 |language=en}}</ref> He served as a servant and page to captain John Smith and accompanied Smith on his explorations into the unknown parts of Virginia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kids in Jamestown History {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/kids-in-jamestown-history/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref> Collier was likely around 12-13 years old in 1607 which was a normal age for apprenticeships in England.<ref name=":1" /> Collier accompanied Smith for his first meeting with Powhatan and Pocahontas.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Kupperman |first=Karen Ordahl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g...over&pg=PA221&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia |date=2021-01-19 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-0598-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Society |first=Hakluyt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G...=frontcover&pg=PA495&dq=Samuell+Collier&hl=en |title=Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society: Extra series |date=1906 |language=en}}</ref>
According to contemporary historians, Collier was sent by Smith to learn the language of the Algonquian-speaking [[Warrosquyoake Shire|Warraskoyack]] tribe of the [[Powhatan Confederacy]], and later served the colony as an interpreter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Egloff |first=Nancy |title='Trusty Servants' and 'Converted Infidells': Cultural Intermediaries In Early Virginia |url=https://www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/re...lls-cultural-intermediaries-in-early-virginia |website=Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Simms |first=William Gilmore |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W...over&pg=PA257&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=The Life of Captain John Smith: The Founder of Virginia |date=1846 |publisher=G.F. Cooledge & Brother |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kupperman |first=Karen Ordahl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s...=frontcover&pg=PA208&dq=Samuell+Collier&hl=en |title=Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America |date=2000 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-8282-3 |language=en}}</ref> He befriended weroance (chief) [[Tackonekintaco]] during that period.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> Collier was held in high esteem by Smith as a respected member of the community.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goode |first=George Brown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o...r&pg=PA50-IA3&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with Notes Upon Related Families, a Key to Southern Genealogy and a History of the English Surname Gode, Goad, Goode Or Good from 1148 to 1887 |date=1887 |publisher=J. W. Randolph & English |language=en}}</ref>
== Death ==
According to Smith's accounts, Collier died in 1622 aged 26-27 due to accidental [[friendly fire]] of an English sentinel during the Powhatan Uprising.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |title=The First Residents of Jamestown - Historic Jamestowne Part of Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/the-first-residents-of-jamestown.htm |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gray |first=Edward G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F...cover&pg=PA47&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800: A Collection of Essays |last2=Fiering |first2=Norman |date=2000 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-57181-160-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kupperman |first=Karen Ordahl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9...over&pg=PA315&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=The Jamestown Project |date=2007-03-23 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-02474-8 |language=en}}</ref>
==Legacy==
Collier's story has been fictionalized in several children's books and in young adult literature. The 2001 book ''Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures Of Young Sam Collier'' by [[Gail Langer Karwoski]] provides a fictional account of Collier's journey to the New World and his life in Jamestown.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Surviving Jamestown {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop...amestown-the-adventures-of-young-sam-collier/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Audiobook: Surviving Jamestown the Adventures of young Sam Collier |url=https://portal.learningally.org/Book-Details/BookID/JP263 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=portal.learningally.org}}</ref>
Collier is a character in the 2000 book titled ''1609: Winter of the Dead'' by [[Elizabeth Massie]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Massie |first=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k...c=frontcover&q=Samuel+Collier+Jamestown&hl=en |title=1609: Winter of the Dead: A Novel of the Founding of Jamestown |date=2000-03-15 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-8125-9093-7 |language=en}}</ref>
In 2007, 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sam Collier And The Founding Of Jamestown {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/books/childrens-books/sam-collier-and-the-founding-of-jamestown/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
A children's book about Collier was written by Elisa Carbone titled ''Blood in the River'', which centers on his travels with John Smith.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sangre en el Rio {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/books/childrens-books/sangre-en-el-rio/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Sally M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7...over&pg=PA139&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland |date=2009 |publisher=Carolrhoda Books |isbn=978-0-8225-7135-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Blood on the River {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/books/childrens-books/blood-on-the-river-jamestown-1607/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Jamestown Colony}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Collier, Samuel}}
[[Category:1590s births]]
[[Category:1622 deaths]]
[[Category
eople from Jamestown, Virginia]]
[[Category:English emigration]]
[[Category:First arrivals in the United States]]
[[Category:History of the Thirteen Colonies]]
[[Category:Jamestown, Virginia]]
[[Categoryre-statehood history of Virginia]]
[[Category:Early colonists in America]]
[[Category:English emigrants to British North America]]
[[Category:British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies]]
[[Categoryeople from London]]
[[Category:American translators]]
[[Category:British translators]]
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{{Infobox person
| birth_date = [[Circa|c.]] 1595
| birth_place = [[London]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1622|1595}}
| death_place = [[Virginia Colony]], British America
| death_cause = [[Friendly fire]]<br>Powhatan Uprising
| known_for = Page to captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]], interpreter in Early America, Jamestown colonist
}}
'''Samuel Collier''' (b. around 1595, d. 1622) was an English boy who arrived in [[Jamestown, Virginia]], in 1607 aboard the [[Susan Constant]], one of the three founding ships. He served as the page to captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]], and later as an [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] interpreter for the colony.
==Early life==
Collier was born around 1595 in [[London]], England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Price |first=David A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_EFbS_7fFcYC&newbks=0&hl=en |title=Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation |date=2007-12-18 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-42670-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=JR1225B {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/archaeology/young-male-settler/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Jamestown colonist ===
Collier is listed among the 104 colonists on the [[Virginia Company]] of London's manifest, and was one of four boys in the first group of settlers to Jamestown.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kay |first=Alan N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPaugpO26i4C&newbks=0&hl=en |title=Jamestown Journey |date= |publisher=Thomas Publications |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-939631-53-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Billings |first=Warren M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x...c=frontcover&pg=PA33&dq=Samuell+Collier&hl=en |title=The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) |date=2008 |publisher=ReadHowYouWant.com |isbn=978-1-4429-6084-8 |language=en}}</ref> He served as a servant and page to captain John Smith and accompanied Smith on his explorations into the unknown parts of Virginia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kids in Jamestown History {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/kids-in-jamestown-history/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref> Collier was likely around 12-13 years old in 1607 which was a normal age for apprenticeships in England.<ref name=":1" /> Collier accompanied Smith for his first meeting with Powhatan and Pocahontas.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Kupperman |first=Karen Ordahl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g...over&pg=PA221&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia |date=2021-01-19 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-0598-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Society |first=Hakluyt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G...=frontcover&pg=PA495&dq=Samuell+Collier&hl=en |title=Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society: Extra series |date=1906 |language=en}}</ref>
According to contemporary historians, Collier was sent by Smith to learn the language of the Algonquian-speaking [[Warrosquyoake Shire|Warraskoyack]] tribe of the [[Powhatan Confederacy]], and later served the colony as an interpreter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Egloff |first=Nancy |title='Trusty Servants' and 'Converted Infidells': Cultural Intermediaries In Early Virginia |url=https://www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/re...lls-cultural-intermediaries-in-early-virginia |website=Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Simms |first=William Gilmore |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W...over&pg=PA257&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=The Life of Captain John Smith: The Founder of Virginia |date=1846 |publisher=G.F. Cooledge & Brother |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kupperman |first=Karen Ordahl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s...=frontcover&pg=PA208&dq=Samuell+Collier&hl=en |title=Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America |date=2000 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-8282-3 |language=en}}</ref> He befriended weroance (chief) [[Tackonekintaco]] during that period.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> Collier was held in high esteem by Smith as a respected member of the community.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goode |first=George Brown |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o...r&pg=PA50-IA3&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with Notes Upon Related Families, a Key to Southern Genealogy and a History of the English Surname Gode, Goad, Goode Or Good from 1148 to 1887 |date=1887 |publisher=J. W. Randolph & English |language=en}}</ref>
== Death ==
According to Smith's accounts, Collier died in 1622 aged 26-27 due to accidental [[friendly fire]] of an English sentinel during the Powhatan Uprising.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |title=The First Residents of Jamestown - Historic Jamestowne Part of Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/the-first-residents-of-jamestown.htm |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gray |first=Edward G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F...cover&pg=PA47&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800: A Collection of Essays |last2=Fiering |first2=Norman |date=2000 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-57181-160-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kupperman |first=Karen Ordahl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9...over&pg=PA315&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=The Jamestown Project |date=2007-03-23 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-02474-8 |language=en}}</ref>
==Legacy==
Collier's story has been fictionalized in several children's books and in young adult literature. The 2001 book ''Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures Of Young Sam Collier'' by [[Gail Langer Karwoski]] provides a fictional account of Collier's journey to the New World and his life in Jamestown.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Surviving Jamestown {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop...amestown-the-adventures-of-young-sam-collier/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Audiobook: Surviving Jamestown the Adventures of young Sam Collier |url=https://portal.learningally.org/Book-Details/BookID/JP263 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=portal.learningally.org}}</ref>
Collier is a character in the 2000 book titled ''1609: Winter of the Dead'' by [[Elizabeth Massie]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Massie |first=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k...c=frontcover&q=Samuel+Collier+Jamestown&hl=en |title=1609: Winter of the Dead: A Novel of the Founding of Jamestown |date=2000-03-15 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-8125-9093-7 |language=en}}</ref>
In 2007, 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sam Collier And The Founding Of Jamestown {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/books/childrens-books/sam-collier-and-the-founding-of-jamestown/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
A children's book about Collier was written by Elisa Carbone titled ''Blood in the River'', which centers on his travels with John Smith.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sangre en el Rio {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/books/childrens-books/sangre-en-el-rio/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Walker |first=Sally M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7...over&pg=PA139&dq=Sam+Collier+John+Smith&hl=en |title=Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland |date=2009 |publisher=Carolrhoda Books |isbn=978-0-8225-7135-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Blood on the River {{!}} Historic Jamestowne |url=https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/books/childrens-books/blood-on-the-river-jamestown-1607/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Jamestown Colony}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Collier, Samuel}}
[[Category:1590s births]]
[[Category:1622 deaths]]
[[Category
eople from Jamestown, Virginia]][[Category:English emigration]]
[[Category:First arrivals in the United States]]
[[Category:History of the Thirteen Colonies]]
[[Category:Jamestown, Virginia]]
[[Category
re-statehood history of Virginia]][[Category:Early colonists in America]]
[[Category:English emigrants to British North America]]
[[Category:British emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies]]
[[Category
eople from London]][[Category:American translators]]
[[Category:British translators]]
Okumaya devam et...