STRACHEY, William, colonist. He left England in 1609 on the " Sea Venture" with Sir Thomas Gates, and was shipwrecked on the Bermudas, but in 1610 reached Virginia on a boat that had been constructed from the wreck, and was secretary of the colony for three years. Strachey wrote "A True Repertory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas," which was published in the fourth volume of Purchas's "Pilgrims." He also compiled for the colony in Virginia "Lawes Divine, Morall, and Martiall" (London, 1612), and was the author of "Historie of Travaile into Virginia Brittania" (1818), published by the Hakluyt society, from an original manuscript, in 1849.