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Updated: May 12, 2025
When Ratcliffe was killed by the Indians while on an expedition up the York, Captain James Davis was named to command in his stead. Those at Point Comfort in the winter of 1609-10 apparently fared much better than those at Jamestown.
By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., LL.D. The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v2, 1609-10
During the 1609-10 "starving time" a minimum force was retained at the settlement while everyone else was turned out to forage as best he could. Most sought the oyster grounds where they ate oysters nine weeks, a diet varied only by a pitifully negligible allowance of corn meal.
The winter of 1609-10 has been described through the years as the "starving time," seemingly, an accurate description. It saw the population shrink from 500 to about sixty as a result of disease, sickness, Indian arrows, and malnutrition. It destroyed morale and reduced the men to scavengers stalking the forest, fields, and woods for anything that might be used as food.
After all, we found that we could not speak lightly, sitting there in the midst of the scene of the "Starving Time." By the winter of 1609-10 there were perhaps five hundred persons in this little settlement by the river, including now, unfortunately, some women and children.
She had found something in her book too, and was already announcing that it was right there that John Rolfe and Pocahontas were married. But the Commodore insisted that his story came first, as Nautica's romantic event was not until 1614, while his famine was in 1609-10. Nautica sighed resignedly as she agreed that we should starve first and get married afterward.
By John Lothrop Motley, D.C.L., LL.D. The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, v2, 1609-10
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