His publications offered practical advice on colonization, but mostly he advocated British imperial strength: "be it by Londoner, Scot, Welch, or English, that are true subjects to our King and Countrey ... there is more then enough America for all." By the time of his death in 1631, he had published nearly a dozen tracts, including a complete Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624), which mixed (and often repeated) his earlier writings with reports by others of events after 1609. He also published an account of his True Travels, Adventures, and Observations (1630). Along with the Pocahontas rescue (belatedly recounted in his Generall Historie), True Travels instigated the skepticism about his reality that flourished in seventeenth-century England and revived in mid-nineteenth-century America. Since about 1950, however, several scholars have established the essential accuracy of Smith's autobiographical writings. He died in London, June, 1631 at the age of fifty-one, and was buried in St. Sepulchre's church.
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