What was life like in jamestown during the starving time?
A Captain named John Smith took control of the village and saved it from utter collapse when he whipped the colony into line. Unfortunately the colonists still died in droves and many were forced to desperate acts to survive. They were reduced to eating dogs, cats, rats, and mice. Some even dug up corpses for food and one hungry man killed, salted, and ate his wife in order to survive. He was later executed for his misbehavior. Four hundred settlers managed to make it to Virginia and Jamestown in 1609. After the “starving time” winter of 1609-1610, only 60 were left alive. By 1625 Virginia contained only some 1,200 survivors of nearly 8,000 people who tried to start a new life in the New World.
