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Chronology of Jamestown
1570s: Spanish Jesuits set up a mission on the York River in
the Chesapeake Bay area. Within a few months, the Spaniards were
killed by local Indians. 
1585-7: Three separate voyages sent English settlers to
Roanoke, Virginia (North Carolina). John White, who had been governor
of the Roanoke colony and had gone back to England for supplies,
returned in 1590 and found no trace of the settlers. 
1607: On May 13, nearly five months after departing from
England, leaders of an expedition of 104 colonists selected a site on
the James River for a settlement. The group was sponsored by the
Virginia Company of London, whose investors hoped to make a profit
from the resources of the New World. The group named their settlement
for King James I. 
1608: Captain Christopher Newport, commander of the 1607
Jamestown expedition who had sailed back to England, returned to
Virginia in January with settlers and goods. It was the first of a
series of regular arrivals in the colony. John Smith was elected
president of the governing council in the fall. Smith returned to
England the next fall (1609) to recover from a gunpowder wound and
never returned to Virginia. 
1611: Elizabeth City and Henrico were established, marking the
beginning of expansion beyond Jamestown. 
1613: The first sample of tobacco cultivated by John Rolfe was
shipped to England about this time. Tobacco was the "golden weed" that
ensured the economic survival of the colony. Pocahontas, a daughter of
Powhatan, powerful leader of 30-some Indian tribes in coastal
Virginia, was kidnapped by the English. 
1614: Pocahontas married John Rolfe after being baptized in the
Anglican Church, and an eight-year period of peace between the English
colonists and Powhatan Indians ensued. 
1617: Pocahontas died in England. 
1619: The first representative legislative assembly in British
America met at Jamestown on July 30. The first documented people of
African origin in Virginia arrived aboard a Dutch ship in late summer.
1620: The Plymouth colony was established in Massachusetts. 
1624: King James revoked the charter of the Virginia Company,
and Virginia became a royal colony. 
1699: The capital of Virginia was moved from Jamestown to
Williamsburg. Courtesy of HistoryIsFun.org.
This news arrived on: 12/27/2006
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07-27-2007 19:07
Sue Gore wrote:
Pocahontas
In my family history she is my 8 great-grand mother.Other than the tribibal name the history books don't really have that much written history.Walt Disney used it to his benefit.
07-27-2007 18:16
Brian Rundle of Penwood ... wrote:
"The Wonder of Jamestown"
I live less than thirty miles from Plymouth UK. and have sat on those great, hand cut, granite blocks they call the "Mayflower Steps" from where those few hardy souls climbed aboard a wooden ship, pushed off and sailed out of Plymouth Sound into the unknown and headed west, and I wondered why?
In June 1992,whilst visiting my two god-daughters in Chesapeake,I had the privilege of standing on the very spot that they finally came ashore, the sign says so, and named it "Jamestown". I looked around me in awe and again I wondered why?
How bad must life have been in England for them to have jumped on that boat in the first place then suffered, what must have been, the harsh deprivations of weeks at sea only to end up at Jamestown. You have to wonder how on earth did they manage to sail past Norfolk without spotting it and how different things might have turned out if someone had been awake in the "crows nest". They could have built themselves a nice little town and base for the ships and on Sundays could have bathed and washed their clothes at Virginia Beach, the water doesn't even need heating.
John Smith and his compatriots may have failed but their decendants "tried and tried again" and the rest is History. We are all decendants of those pioneers, if nothing else, we can learn from them never to give up in adversity, keep trying and we can all succeed.
That is "The Wonder of Jamestown"
PS. I still have the two glass candleholders made at Jamestown "before my very eyes", anyone got a recipe for making candles? replies to brianrundle@btinternet.com
In June 1992,whilst visiting my two god-daughters in Chesapeake,I had the privilege of standing on the very spot that they finally came ashore, the sign says so, and named it "Jamestown". I looked around me in awe and again I wondered why?
How bad must life have been in England for them to have jumped on that boat in the first place then suffered, what must have been, the harsh deprivations of weeks at sea only to end up at Jamestown. You have to wonder how on earth did they manage to sail past Norfolk without spotting it and how different things might have turned out if someone had been awake in the "crows nest". They could have built themselves a nice little town and base for the ships and on Sundays could have bathed and washed their clothes at Virginia Beach, the water doesn't even need heating.
John Smith and his compatriots may have failed but their decendants "tried and tried again" and the rest is History. We are all decendants of those pioneers, if nothing else, we can learn from them never to give up in adversity, keep trying and we can all succeed.
That is "The Wonder of Jamestown"
PS. I still have the two glass candleholders made at Jamestown "before my very eyes", anyone got a recipe for making candles? replies to brianrundle@btinternet.com
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