USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -ANSWER: The first two women arrived at Jamestown on the second resupply in 1608; Mistress Forrest and her maid servant Anne Burras. After that, more women arrived, as parts of families, but the first significant influx of women did not occur until much later.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women were known to provide a sense of stability. They came to the Jamestown Colony to marry men in the colony or to serve as indentured servants. Some women were also known to come to the colony at a young age with their families, such as Cecily Jordan Farrar. In 1610, the colony’s focus was on establishing families.

Detailed explanation-3: -The original settlers were all men. When their ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, arrived near the banks of the James River on May 14, 1607, 104 men and boys set foot on what would soon become Jamestown.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anne Burras was an early English settler in Virginia and an Ancient Planter. 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 colony.