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Thomas Harriot/Percy Relationship
Thomas Harriot induced Henry Percy (the Earl of Northumberland) into encouraging his
epileptic younger brother George to go out to Virginia in 1603. The Earl sent to his younger
brother clothes, books and papers. George Percy returned home in 1612. Christopher Newport
returned from Jamestown in 1609 with one of Powatan’s sons (this could have been the means of
the Zuniga map arriving back to England, and also Percy’s map if it was him who drew it.
Conjecture of other authors are one of the two men sent by Smith to contact the colonists at
Panowiok) (Robert Fox, Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science, Burlington, Vermont:
Ashgate Publications, 2000: 43).
As Harriot lay dying he remembered his first patron Sir Walter Raleigh and desired that
the papers that he had of Raleigh’s should be burnt “whereas I have divers _______ papers (of
which some are in a canvas bagge) of my accompts to Sir Walter Rawley for all which I have
discharges or acquitances lying in some boxes or other my desire is that they all be burnt---”
(Fox, 2000: 44-45).