Assignment One Essay

1.) What argon some of the hardships faced by indentured servants in Virginia during the early(a) days of the colony? a. Some of the hardships faced by indentured servants was disease such as scurvy, bloody flux, and diverse other diseases. Also, they have not a owing(p) deal of a variety of food to eat, they eat peas and loblollies, and so they will do anything to be able to eat other variety of foods. The amount of food they witness is shared between other men. Therefore their amount of food intake is not enough to make them full. They have clothes but they are anile and dirty because they one of everything they wear. Since they do not have anything worth a penny, because if they do others steal it, they ordurenot have food other than peas. They cannot eat bread because it embody a penny and they dont have a penny to buy anything.2.) How does the physical location of Jamestown colony lead to many of the hardships described in this document? b. It seems they are close to poss ibly Indian attacks or people from other countries because he stated in the story but yet we are 32 to fight 3000 if they should come. He hasnt seen any deer or venison since he arrived in Jamestown therefore the meat source is not a great source for food reliability. It takes them a few days to retrieve cargo from the ships. They start to the shore and sleep the first night they get there, then dispatch the next day and start back to their home with the cargo.3.) How have conditions at Jamestown affected the writer of this letter? c. He thinks negative about everything. He has aught in Jamestown to call his own or nothing to comfort him. He expects the worse because people are dying by the hour. Not having much to eat, he doesnt think he will survive much longer unless his he dies before he receives the package. He believes in God and that he can keep him alive if he drinks water, he heard. He tells his dad to have mercy and pity on him, that life in England was better because he had more food that filled him. He thanks his parents for providing all that they did while he lived in England. He loves his dad and doesnt want his dad to forget him.