TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 A NEW START 4 Chapter 2 POOR NEIGHBORS 12 Chapter 3 A SERIES OF DISASTERS 20 Chapter 4 JAMESTOWN SURVIVES 30 GLOSSARY 38 SOURCE NOTES 38 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 39 FURTHER INFORMATION 39 INDEX 40
A NEW START 1 A NEW START On December 20 1606 three ships sailed from England Aboard them were a total of 105 men The men were traveling to Virginia in the New World Once they arrived they would establish a settlement there These explorers were funded by investors of London’s Virginia Company They hoped to find precious gold silver and other raw materials to send back to England The group arrived in Virginia in April 1607 One man had died on the journey The first task for the remaining 104 men was to choose a site for their new home By May 1607 they had found a Men from England arrived in Virginia in April 1607 4
Jamestown was named for King James I location It was 60 miles 97 kilometers from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay The land was surrounded by water on three sides The water was deep enough to moor their ships The Spanish had already set up settlements in the New World This location would be easy to defend against Spanish invasions It also did not have any existing American Indian settlements The explorers named the new settlement Jamestown after their king James I It would become the first permanent English settlement in North America The site of Jamestown and the entire region of 5
