Send to: Susan Carpenter

Robert Carpenter 

May 27th, 1607

At the coast of the Virginia Colonies

We Made It!

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Dear Susan, 

After months of traveling in a that horrid thing that we call a "ship", eating terrible food with unknown items mixed into it (I shudder at the thought of it), and passing the time by whittling, learning how to properly read and write from Timothy, and working as a we finally made it to the New World. After so many hardships, we finally made it! But I am not all that sure if I should start celebrating or not. Out of the 144 people who went aboard on the Susan Constant, Discovery, and the Godspeed, nearly 39 people died. That gave us only 105 survivors left to tread this land. And thankfully, I was one of the survivors. 

And just so if you felt worried dear on why I didn't write to you every single day or week, this was because I didn't want to worry you. I only wanted to send you the letters only if something big had happened. But I still did write to you, I have pages and pages of letters that I never sent to you because I just thought they were too pointless, frivolous or boring. I still wrote them anyways. Fine, you can now laugh at me and my silly romantics. But mind you Susan, I spent many hours trying to create this story.

Well anyways, when we first came to our settlement (a few weeks back), it was marshy and quite different than the land of England that we had journeyed from. Really, there were no people in sight. The reason why we even chose to settle in such a wasteland was to avoid Spanish ships from coming. We managed to keep away from them, for now. 

Now, the first weeks of our settlement were peaceful. It was just us trying to build a place where we can live and prosper. But then the Indians came. They seemed nice at first, but then they got angry. They got angry at us for taking their land. I mean, I would be angry as well if someone took my home, but the councilmen were not looking at what was just. They were seeing this land as if it was all their's the own and keep. We settlers were the only right that can be seen through all the wrongs that everyone else was doing. And I guess that was wrong.

Anyways, we managed to come to a mutual agreement with the Indians and their chief Powhatan. We trade English items such as guns, alcohol, and etc with them, and in return they traded corn, beans, and growing and fishing techniques with us. It is a pretty good system, but I am honestly not sure how long this "peaceful" relationship will last between us.  

Alright, this is all I have for you now. Hope to see you soon!

With much love,

Robert