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With new leadership, the colonists hoped for change.  In the second episode of the Jamestown colony, the colonists get ready for winter after a famine hits the colony.  Unfortunately, just as it seems their luck changes, tragedy strikes.  

More on John Ratcliffe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratcliffe_(governor) More on Matthew Scrivener: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Scrivener More on George Percy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Percy Read Smith’s Account of Virginia: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/fha-js/SmiWorks2 Read the Second Charter of Virginia: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va02.asp   Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/