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The first settlement near Jamestown was made in 1817 by John King and his brother-in-law. [2] In the 1840s and 1850s, many German farmers settled in the area. Jamestown itself was founded on June 4, 1850, by William Lenox and James Massey. [2]
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 .
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] He is noteworthy as the only original 1607 Jamestown colonist having documented descendants living today.
Robert Hunt (c. 1568x1570 – 1608), a vicar in the Church of England, was chaplain of the expedition that founded the first successful English colony in the New World, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.
Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008. Originally published as Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the Founding of English America in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-009057-9
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 ]
William Spence is sometimes erroneously conflated with William Spencer (burgess), another early Virginia colonist who also lived on Jamestown Island but did not arrive at Jamestown until 1611. [2] William Spencer later became a member of the House of Burgesses for Mulberry Island in 1632–33, eight years after William Spence was lost and ...
She was the first English woman to marry in the New World, and her daughter Virginia Laydon was the first child of English colonists to be born in the Jamestown, Virginia, colony. [4] Anne Burras arrived in Jamestown on October 1, 1608, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] on the Mary and Margaret , the ship bringing the Second Supply .