George Percy (governor)

George Percy (1580 – 1632) was an English explorer, author, and early Colonial Governor of Virginia.

• Now all of us at Jamestown, beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger, which no man (can) truly describe but he which hath tasted the bitterness thereof, a world of miseries ensued...
  • A True Relation of the Proceedings... in Virginia (c. 1624); an account of the "Starving Time" (1609–1610). Reported in Conway Whittle Sams, The Conquest of Virginia: The Third Attempt, 1610–1624 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939), p. 103

• Cannibalism in the Americas

• "The Starving Time, Jamestown, 1610, Henry Hart", Virginia Commonwealth University (Fall 2002)