Ĭaptain Kendall was allowed the "honor" of a gentleman's death by firing squad, on as opposed to being hanged like a common criminal. Kendall was then tried for mutiny and found guilty of "heinous matters which was proved against him." Kendall made a final attempt to stay his execution by pleading a technicality: that Ratcliffe was not the President's real name it was Sicklemore (which was true), but Councilor Martin stepped in to pronounce the sentence. George Kendall's fate was sealed by a blacksmith, James Read, who, himself about to be hanged, saved his own life by trading secrets about Kendall. John Ratcliffe was named as new president. All was in turmoil! Before long, Wingfield himself was deposed, Kendall released (to go unarmed), and Wingfield imprisoned aboard the small ship. There being no prison, he was locked in a cabin aboard the pinnace Discovery. According to Captain John Smith, the President "would admit no exercise at armes, or fortification, but the boughs of trees cast together in the form of a half moon by the extraordinary pains and diligence of Captain Kendall." Īpparently, George Kendall was not only pro-active, but also too outspoken George Percy and Wingfield denounced Kendall as "a stirrer up of dissensions," and on, he was driven from the council. The colonists selected an island on the James River as their settlement, but President Edward Maria Wingfield was reluctant to build a fort. His network of relationships was far-reaching, whether from family or acquaintance, including Sir Edwin Sandys, the Roos (or Ros) family, and the Earl of Southampton.
Relatively young, fit, experienced as a soldier, and allied socially with people of import, he was well qualified as a councilor. Upon their arrival, in the spring of 1607, the instructions of the Virginia Company were opened and revealed Kendall to be one of the colony's first councilors. In 1606, he was among the first daring men who set sail on the Jamestown fleet and ventured to Jamestown. Several wounds made by musket balls imply a violent demise, perhaps the 1608 death by firing squad of condemned mutineer George Kendall? Mystery enshrouds Captain George Kendall, whose possible remains were recently unearthed near Jamestown Fort.
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