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Fortuitously, on June 9, 1610, De La Warr arrived on the James River just as the settlers had abandoned Jamestown. Intercepting them about 10 miles (16 km) downstream from Jamestown near Mulberry Island (adjacent to present-day Fort Eustis in Newport News), the new governor forced the remaining 90 settlers to return.
In mid-1610, the survivors abandoned Jamestown, though they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River. Jamestown served as the colonial capital from 1616 until 1699. In August 1619, the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived at present-day Old Point Comfort , near the Jamestown colony, on a British ...
On June 7, 1610, the survivors boarded ships, abandoned the colony site, and sailed downstream to the Chesapeake Bay. There, another supply convoy with new supplies, headed by newly appointed governor Francis West, intercepted them on the lower James River and returned them to Jamestown.
After Jamestown burned down in 1676, ... The winter of 1609-1610, known as the "Starving Time," was particularly brutal, with only 60 of the original 214 settlers surviving. The colony was saved ...
Died upon return to Bermuda, November 1610 Matthew Somers: Captain Mathew Somers Swallow: Nephew of George Somers. Sailed to Bermuda and then back to England at some point in 1610. Henry Spelman of Jamestown: teenaged boy, writer Unitie [75] William Strachey: Secretary-elect, writer Sea Venture: Author of True Reportory and other works James ...
May 10 1610: In the Somers Isles, Thomas Gates, Newport, Somers, and other castaway-colonists (totaling 137) board the Deliverance and Patience to sail to Jamestown. Two sailors (Christopher Carter and Edward-Robert Waters) remain behind on Bermuda. Lord De La Warr's flotilla intercepts the English refugees abandoning the Jamestown colony, June ...
In 1610, survivors abandoned Jamestown, although they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River. Soon thereafter during the early 17th century, tobacco emerged as a profitable export. It was chiefly grown on plantations, using primarily enslaved labor for the intensive hand labor involved.
An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, has unearthed a long-hidden scandal in the family of the colony’s first governor.