Smith succeeded to the presidency.
About this time John Laydon, a laborer, and Anne Burras, that maid of Mistress Forest's, fell in love and would marry.

So came about the first English wedding in Virginia.
Winter followed with snow and ice, nigh two hundred people to feed, and not overmuch in the larder with which to do it.

Smith with George Percy and Francis West and others went again to the Indians for corn.

Christmas found them weather-bound at Kecoughtan.

"Wherever an Englishman may be, and in whatever part of the world, he must keep Christmas with feasting and merriment! And, indeed, we were never more merrie, nor fedde on more plentie of good oysters, fish, flesh, wild fowle and good bread; nor never had better fires in England than in the drie, smokie houses of Kecoughtan!" But despite this Christmas fare, there soon began quarrels, many and intricate, with Powhatan and his brother Opechancanough..