John Smith in History of Drugs in America
John Smith (1580–1631) was an important leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
In 1617, Smith described Jamestown, a decade after its founding, as a town with "only five or six houses, the Church downe, the palisades broken, the Bridge in pieces, the Well of fresh water spoiled," but "the market-place, the streets, and all other spare places planted with Tobacco."