John Smith - the apologist of the New World mastering in the early 17 <sup>th</sup> century
The article covers the low-studied aspects of formation and development of colonial thought in England in the first decades of the 17 th century. Today there is no clear idea of regularities of distribution of the early English texts devoted to the New World, the role of certain intellectuals in the development of ideas of expansion, organization and functioning of the first campaigns among various segments of the population for development of North America.