George Percy (governor)

thumb| George Percy (1580 – 1632) was an English explorer, author, and early Colonial Governor of Virginia. Quotes Now all of us at Jamestown, beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger, which no man (can) truly describe but he which hath tasted the bitterness thereof, a world of miseries ensued... A True Relation of the Proceedings... in Virginia (c. 1624); an account of the "Starving Time" (1609–1610). Reported in Conway Whittle Sams, The Conquest of Virginia: The Third Attempt, 1610–1624 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939), p. 103 See also Cannibalism in the Americas External links "The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610, Henry Hart", Virginia Commonwealth University (Fall 2002) Category:1580 births Category:1632 deaths Category:People from England Category:People from Virginia Category:American colonial governors