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Apr 04, 1572 Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom Died on 01 Jan 1621 (aged 48)
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About William Strachey
- William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 21 June 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America.
- He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane while sailing to Virginia.
- The survivors eventually reached Virginia after building two small ships during the ten months they spent on the island.
- His account of the incident and of the Virginia colony is thought by most Shakespearean scholars to have been a source for Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
