The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men ...

The English settlement of Jamestown was important ... Chesapeake Bay in late April 1607. When they arrived, the settlers opened orders from their sponsor, the Virginia Company.

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what ... in what is now Virginia. Captain John Smith, the leader of the Jamestown colony, heard ...

The tombstone, from 1627, was erected at the Jamestown settlement following the death of Sir George Yeardley, a colonial ...

At the start of the 17 th century, a group of Englishmen docked their ships on the coast of North America in a bid to start a settlement, which they named Jamestown, Virginia – after ... which was ...

The iconic black "marble" tombstone, from Jamestown, Virginia, features design elements that may connect it to an English knight. Founded in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent English ...

View scans of historic and contemporary maps, read a bibliography ... Press, 2006. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, The First Decade: 1607-1617.

study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and revealed an unexpected family secret. Founded in AD 1607, Jamestown was the ...

The most visited park in Virginia is First Landing State Park, where the Jamestown colonists first landed in the New World in 1607. Today ... the park's trail map or ask a park ranger for detailed ...

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