Talk:Henry Spelman of Jamestown
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 January 2019 and 8 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Drjoline. Peer reviewers: Laurenmacias.
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Changed survived by father Sir Henry S. to Erasmus. I don't think he was a knight so Sir should be deleted, too, but I am not certain. Also what is the source for son Clement? I have a personal interest as I am a Spelman descendant and my research indicates it is from this Clement, but no hard evidence that Henry was his father.
Lauren M[edit]
There is this part "Powhatan was pleased and treated Henry kindly for a while.[1]" which seems mildly irrelevant considering no one could know how Powhatan felt unless that's a direct mention. I had some of these in my article as well, mentioning how they were all "overjoyed."
You put in a lot of interesting information that adds more context, and the rest of it looks relevant also. I didn't see any broken links, but all of it seems to fit the narrative and add more to it than just one side of it.
RTV Feedback[edit]
Nice updates! I especially like the clarifications (such as the arriving vessels/supply flotilla) and the delineation of the contents of Relations of Virginia.
Karen Kupperman has a new published version of _Relation_ out that would be worth checking out, especially her introduction.
Make another pass on the edits. Examples: Voyage v. abduction (be consistent); ship names are usually italicized rather than in quotes; not clear on why he is at times "Henry" (usually only used to clarify if there are multiple individuals with the same last name) rather than "Spelman"; err on the side of shorter sentences for clarity; there are quite a few locations where commas are in order ("in 1609," ", yet it wrecked" ... etc.).