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

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 noun “colony” implies a like purpose for the constituents. For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was establishing the first English ...

Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent British colony in America. But it nearly didn't survive. The fact it did, is due in large part to Sir George Yeardley, a military man ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's ...

America’s first permanent English colony, Jamestown was established in 1607 in Tsenacomoco, the area in present-day Virginia that was home to the Powhatan chiefdom. Colonial shipping lists ...

(WAVY) – A recreation of one of the three sailing vessels that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607 is ... 7-9, the Jamestown Settlement’s Godspeed will ...

In 1607, the English established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. Over the coming centuries, millions of people from around the globe were attracted to this New World that ...