SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN COLONY
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James River
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Hudson River
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Trinity River
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Brazos River
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonists moved along the James River (then called the Fluvanna) and its tributaries, founding settlements including Flowerdew Hundred, Jordan’s Journey, and Henricus. As the population moved west, so did the capital – from Jamestown to Williamsburg in 1699 and to Richmond in 1780.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some 100 English colonists arrive along the east bank of the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Dispatched from England by the London Company, the colonists had sailed across the Atlantic aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery.
Detailed explanation-3: -In May 1610, shipwrecked settlers who had been stranded in Bermuda finally arrived at Jamestown. Part of a fleet sent the previous fall, the survivors used two boats built on Bermuda to get to Jamestown.
Detailed explanation-4: -The investors had one goal in mind: gold. They hoped to repeat the success of Spaniards who found gold in South America. In 1607, 144 English men and boys established the Jamestown colony, named after King James I.