Vintage Post Card of: Photo card of couple with dog era 1907. Post marked Jun 2, p:30 pm., 1907 with 1 cent postage- Commemorative series 1907 of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631, Founding of Jamestown green stamp affixed to the front of the card. The 1907 Jamestown commemorative stamp set honors the 300th anniversary of the settlement’s founding, which was a historic chapter in our nation’s development. John Smith is pictured on the 1 Jamestown commemorative stamp. Smith is the best known of the early settlers of Virginia. As a youngster, he was an indifferent student and eventually chose to follow the call of the sea. At the young age of 26, he began trying to colonize Jamestown. While on an expedition in Virginia, he and his men were attacked by Indians. Smith was tried and sentenced to die, but was supposedly saved by Pocahontas. While many of the events in Smith’s life have been debated, he’s credited with making an accurate map of the northeastern coast from Penobscot, Maine, to Cape Cod. And it was Smith who called the area “New England.”