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Christopher Newport (b. 1561 – d. 1617) was an English seaman and privateer.He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown On 4 May [ O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London , on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River .
Thomas Wotton was a surgeon who traveled to Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 with the original group of colonists. [1] Another surgeon, Will Wilkinson, also was among the first colonists. [ 2 ] Wotton was described as a "gentleman" while Wilkinson was identified with the laborers and craftsmen. [ 3 ]
Robert Hunt Memorial Shrine at Jamestown. Today, a shrine sits on the site at the National Park Service's Historic Jamestowne attraction of the Colonial National Historical Park on Jamestown Island. The shrine replicates the outdoor chapel conditions under which he spiritually led the men and boys, most of whom were to die, as did Chaplain Hunt ...
Captain Robert Beheathland (or Behethland, born before 1587 - d. 1627) in St Endellion, Cornwall, England, was an English gentleman who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard one of the three founding ships, likely the Susan Constant. [1]
1622) was an English boy who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard the Susan Constant, one of the three founding ships. He served as the page to captain John Smith , and later as an Algonquian interpreter for the colony.
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Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating the remains of the original English settlement at Jamestown established in the Virginia Colony in North America beginning on May 14, 1607.