The 6th Biennial Conference of the Society will be held 4-7 March 2009 in Hamilton, Bermuda, to mark the 400th anniversary of the wreck of the Sea Venture, flagship of the Jamestown Third Supply voyage, which initiated the permanent settlement of Bermuda-- the second permanent English colony in the Americas.
The formal aspects of the conference will run from 8 am Thursday, 5 March through 6 pm Saturday, 7 March. Plans are underway to conduct a pre-conference series of events on Wednesday, 4 March, focused on the historic town of St. George’s in the north end of the island. A World Heritage Site, St George’s is the site of the first settlement by the survivors of the wreck of the Sea Venture, includes the oldest Protestant church in the Western Hemisphere, as well as a number of house museums, fortifications, etc. For more information about the conference, please see the sidebar menu to the left.
John Speed (1542-1629), Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Bermudas dictarum. . . A Mapp of the Sommer Islands,
Amsterdam, Abraham Goos, ca. 1626, The James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota