I was looking on the internet for hours but couldnt manage to find anything useful. But then I found an account written by John Smith. This was in 1612. The colony's chief people wanted to ship John Smith back for a punishment, but John Smith defended him self and managed to stay and after it by a while he managed to be a powerful man by becoming Ratcliffe's chief agent who was the presidant at the time. This is an account written by John Smith which speaks for himself(http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/smith.cfm):
he much scorned their charity, and publicly defied the uttermost of their cruelty. He wisely prevented their policies, though he could not suppress their envies, yet so well he demeaned himself in this business, as all the company did see his innocency, and his adversaries' malice, and those suborned to accuse him, accused his accusers of subornation; many untruths were alleged against him; but being so apparently disproved begat a general hatred in the hearts of the company against such unjust commanders; many were the mischiefs that daily sprung from their ignorant (yet ambitious) spirits; but the good doctrine and exhortation of our preacher Master Hunt reconciled them, and caused Captain Smith to be admitted of the Council
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