Smith drew a map of the country, and was the first to call it "New England" instead of North Virginia, Norumbega, or Canada.

This map he submitted to Prince Charles, who gave names to some thirty points on the coast.

Only Plymouth, Charles River, and Cape Ann have permanently kept the names thus fastened upon them.
Boston, Hull, Cambridge, and some others were subsequently adopted, but applied to localities different from those to which Prince Charles affixed them.
While he was absent one day Thomas Hunt, master of one of his vessels, kidnapped twenty-four savages, and, setting sail, carried them to Spain, where he sold most of them.

The outrage soured the Indians in New England, but of the captives, one, named Squanto or Tisquantum, was carried to England, and his later friendliness worked to the benefit of subsequent English colonization.[1] In 1615 Captain Smith entered into the service of the Plymouth Company and was complimented with the title of "Admiral of New England." With great difficulty they provided two ships and despatched them to effect a settlement, but the result was the old story of misfortune.

The ship in which Smith sailed was captured by the French, and Smith himself was detained in captivity for some time.