George Walton

       

                             
                George Walton studied law in Savannah and was admitted in the Bar in the year 1774. He was elected secretary in the Georgia provincial Congress; however, he was made president of the Council of Safety. He joined General Robert Howe, during the battle of Savannah which was when Georgia was captured by the British. On 1787, Walton, was Delegate of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention. In October 1789 he was appointed Governor of Georgia but lasted only two months. He was the first governor of Georgia to be appointed after it was admitted into statehood.  Walton served as judge of the Superior Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit, in 1789. Serving for the University of Georgia and the Richmond Academy he was trustee.

The Real Culprit

              Many records have shown that Pocahontas had saved the life of John Smith when the Native Americans took him captive. Pocahontas was a Native American, who was daughter of Powhatan, the chief of the tribe. John Smith was an English explorer, who went in the Americas in 1607 but was held captive by Powhatan. Pocahontas did not save the life of John Smith as shown in document 1 in which an encounter is delineated, document 2 in which the story is changed, document 3 who talks about Pocahontas in England, and in document 4 who's interpretation is modified.
              The first encounter between John Smith and the Native Americans demonstrates that he was treated kindly. John Smith, published this book in 1608 with a view towards the Native Americans that was friendly because of how they were treated; therefore, this document illustrates how the Native Americans were nice people and his life was in no real danger to begin with. In 1624, John Smith wrote a second book in which John Smith changes the story and explains that Pocahontas had indeed saved his life; however, the author wanted to show that not all the Native Americans were "savages" so people from England would want to settle into the Americas. Paul Lewis, a historian, stated in 1966 that Pocahontas had gone to Europe and converted to Christianity with the help of John White; as a result, John white wanted to seem as the savior of Pocahontas just like she had saved him, to keep the consistency of his story. In 1991, J.A Leo Lemay explains that John Smith's stories were not questioned; however, he might be displaying a bias towards Smith because he does not understand customs of the Native Americans.
           Pocahontas did not save John Smith because he was not in any danger to begin with because the Native Americans were kind and showed hospitality.  The stories were consistently changed but that was not only years after the "kidnapping". The original story was showed that the Native Americans provided food and friendship (doc 1), the story was later changed that Pocahontas had thrown herself in order to save John Smith (doc 2), John Smith was shown to try to be credited for Pocahontas becoming Christian in order to become more popular (doc 3), and the customs of the Native Americans were not known and simply fabricated (doc 4). This inconsistency shows how Pocahontas did not save John Smith from captivity.