We’re taking a very broad look at the arrival of Europeans into the North American world from about 1500 to

Continue readingEpisode 158 – North American Colonization

This is the conclusion of the drama on the Chesapeake. Richard Ingle, William Claiborne, Leonard Calvert, and Thomas Cornwaleys all

Continue readingEpisode 157 – Rascally Fellows of Desperate Fortunes

The English Civil War arrived in America when a trader named Richard Ingle was accused of Parliamentarian sympathies. Today’s drama

Continue readingEpisode 156 – High Treason

The fighting on the Chesapeake exploded in the 1630s between Virginia and Maryland. The trading post on Kent Island was

Continue readingEpisode 155 – Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder part 2

Jamestown, Virginia was growing into a viable colony when another party entered the American Colonial world. A formidable Catholic family

Continue readingEpisode 154 – Grevious Crimes of Pyracie & Murder part 1