First came the news in the fall of 1609 that the Sea Adventure, with Somers, Gates, Newport, and strachey, had been lost.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
Somers rode aboard the Sea Adventure, whose master was Newport and whose passengers included Sir Thomas Gates and William strachey, the newly appointed secretary of the colony.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
Mr. strachey tells us in his report to the Foreign Office in 1870 that every fourth inhabitant of Copenhagen was in receipt of parochial relief in 1867, and he says that while the Danish operatives are sober, and well educated, they fail in industry and thrift.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae