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SAMUEL, English adventurer; born in Bristol, England, in 1572.
He was in Virginia at a time when Powhatan was particularly
hostile to the English settlers. He and his nearest neighbors
would not allow the people to carry food to the English at
Jamestown, and provisions became very scarce. Argall was sent
with a vessel on a foraging expedition up the York River. Being
near the dwelling of Powhatan, he bribed a native by a gift of a
copper kettle to entice Pocahontas on board his vessel, where he
detained her a prisoner, hoping to get a large quantity of corn
from her father as a ransom, and to recover s