of the supplies from the Supply Relief Fleet had arrived (the same hurricane which caught the Sea Venture had damaged some of the rest of the fleet), and only 60 settlers survived. Only the food and help offered by those on the two small ships from Bermuda, followed by a relief fleet in July 1610, commanded by Lord Delaware, enabled the colony to survive and avoided the abandonment of Jamestown. Somers returned to Bermuda in the Patience to collect more food, but he became ill on the journey. He died in Bermuda on 9 November 1610, at age 56. Local legend says that he loved Bermuda so much that he requested that his heart be buried there. A marker in Somers' Gardens in St. George's marks the approximate location where his heart was supposed to have been buried. The remainder of his body was taken back to England and buried in his home hamlet of Whitchurch Canonicorum near to the town of Lyme Regis. References Footnotes Bibliography Dwyer, Jack. 2009. Dorset Pioneers, The History Press Glover, Lorri and Daniel Blake Smith. The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2008 Mayden, David. 1998. Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. Editorial ABC-CLIO. Raine, David. Sir George Somers: A Man and his Times External links 16th-century English people 17th-century Royal Navy personnel 1554 births 1610 deaths Burials in Dorset Castaways English MPs 1604–1611 History of Bermuda Knights Bachelor People from Lyme Regis Royal Navy admirals Shipwreck survivors Virginia colonial people