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John Day was an English merchant in the Spanish trade. He wrote this letter in Spain between December 1497 and January 1498 to the "Lord Grand Admiral", probably Christopher Columbus. Discovered in 1956 in the Archivo General de Simancas, the letter contains information which adds significantly to the stock of knowledge concerning the Cabot ...
Mar 22, 2008 · While the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives holds the original letters, Janie Leigh Carter also transcribed them as part of her M.A. thesis; Carter, "John Day: A Founder of the Republic of Liberia and the Southern Baptist Liberian Missionary Movement" (M.A. thesis, Wake Forest University, 1998).
Feb 28, 2018 · Day’s Influential Background. John Day was born February 18, 1797, at Hicks Ford, Virginia. A cabinet maker and preacher by trade, Day was an African-American colonist of Liberia who had experienced a world of harsh pain and division in America. He sought to bring the hope of salvation to African people he understood to be in desperate need.
Overall, the "1497 Letter from Bristol merchant John Day to the Lord Grand Admiral of Castile" provides valuable insights into early English attempts at exploration and trade with the New World. The document is an important primary source for understanding the challenges faced by early European explorers and traders, as well as the complex relationships between Europeans and native peoples.
They found tall trees of the kind masts are made and other small trees and the country is very rich in grass. They found a trail that went inland, they saw a site where fire had been made, they saw manure of animals which they thought to be farm animals, and they saw a stick half a yard long pierced at both ends, carved and painted with brazil (a red dye), and by such signs they believed the ...
JOHN DAY AND COLUMBUS DAVID B. QUINN The letter which John Day wrote to the 'Almirante Mayor' on John Cabot's American voyage of 1497 (Spanish, Vigneras, 1961, pp. 666-8, Almagia, 1960, PP- 2-3; English, Williamson, 1962, pp. 211-14) continues to provide material for comment and controversy. Much of the latter will be stifled by Dr. A. A. Ruddock's
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Sep 1, 2002 · Abstract. John Foxe, the martyrologist, and John Day, the Elizabethan master printer, played central roles in the emergence of literate print culture following the death of William Tyndale ...
