After all, Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 1500s, well before the Jamestown settlers in 1607 or the Pilgrims in 1620.
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In 1611, cannabis was planted in Jamestown, Virginia, by order of the king.
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Three weeks later, they had settled Jamestown, an unused bit of land the Native Americans had deemed undesirable.
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Within the first nine months of life in Jamestown, the original 104 ship passengers had dwindled down to 38.
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The crop of men landing at Jamestown were soldiers by trade, and all were accustomed to leadership roles.
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The lesson dealt with the coming of the Virginia colonists, their settlement in Jamestown and the final burning of the town.
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His child Bermuda had died in infancy, and his wife soon after their coming to Jamestown.
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Before you left Jamestown, had you heard aught of my wife or of my enemy?
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The Jamestown people were found by Dale "at their daily and usual work bowling in the streets."
The Beginners of a Nation|Edward Eggleston.
This decoration resembles closely the interiors of the floral-type plates and chargers found at Jamestown.
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British Dictionary definitions for Jamestown
Jamestown
/ (ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn) /
noun
a ruined village in E Virginia, on Jamestown Island (a peninsula in the James River): the first permanent settlement by the English in America (1607); capital of Virginia (1607–98); abandoned in 1699
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.