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    The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of...
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    Jamestown, also Jamestowne, was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the...
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    Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, created in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park for the 350th anniversary...
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  • Jamestown often refers to: Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas Jamestown may also refer to Jamestown, South Australia...
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    37.208528; -76.778389 Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, is one of the oldest...
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  • timeline of events related to the settlement of Jamestown, in what today is the U.S. state of Virginia. Dates use the Old Style calendar (e.g., the settlement...
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    colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony...
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    is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known...
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    founder of the Jamestown colony was the Virginia Company, chartered by King James I, with its first two settlements being in Jamestown on the north bank...
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    boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of...
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    of inland Canada. The company established the Jamestown Settlement in present-day Jamestown, Virginia on 14 May 1607, about 40 miles inland along the...
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    Pocahontas (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network...
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    quarter of the immigrant population of the Colony of Virginia. Founded in 1607, Jamestown, Virginia, was the site of the first successful English settlement...
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  • d. 1608) was a member of the first council appointed at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia. Kendall arrived with the founding fleet, and was sworn to...
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    John Rolfe (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    Rolfe Negatives," in The Virginia Genealogist, 34(1990):209-210} A project of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, Jamestown had been established by...
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    Jamestown Island is a 1,561-acre (632 ha; 2.439 sq mi) island in the James River in Virginia, part of James City County. It is located off Glasshouse Point...
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    Starving Time at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was a period of starvation during the winter of 1609–1610. There were about 500 Jamestown residents at...
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    timber church on Jamestown Island, Virginia. The unicameral Assembly was composed of the Governor, a Council of State appointed by the Virginia Company, and...
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  • after Virginia Dare (who was born in the Roanoke Colony.) Laydon's mother Anne Burras was one of the first two women to arrive in Jamestown, along with...
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    Jamestown, originally a side-wheel, passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Virginia Navy...
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  • Samuel Collier (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    Collier (b. c. 1595 - d. 1622) was an English boy who arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 aboard the Susan Constant, one of the three founding ships...
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  • Norfolk, England at age 14 to sail to Virginia Colony aboard the ship Unity, as a part of the Third Supply to the Jamestown Colony in 1609. He is remembered...
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    founding of Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, it was held from April 26 to December 1, 1907, at Sewell's Point on Hampton Roads, in Norfolk, Virginia. It celebrated...
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  • Jamestown is a British drama television series, written by Bill Gallagher and produced by Carnival Films, an NBC Universal International Television Production...
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    Stephen Hopkins (pilgrim) (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    having been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 enroute to Jamestown, Virginia. Hopkins left Jamestown in 1614 and returned to England. Hopkins traveled to...
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    Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and broadly by the international socialist movement, from the United...
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    Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating...
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    Mistress Forrest (category History of Virginia)
    Margaret under Captain Christopher Newport to resupply the colony at Jamestown, Virginia. Her husband Thomas Forrest, Esq., was listed as a gentleman on that...
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    Jamestown Revival is an American folk duo made up of Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay. The childhood friends from Magnolia, Texas, write songs about everyday...
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    John Ratcliffe (governor) (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    1609) was an early Jamestown colonist, governor, and sea captain. Ratcliffe became the second president of the colony of Jamestown. He was slain by the...
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