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The Successes of Jamestown
Despite poor planning, near famine, and a great loss of life in its first years, Jamestown survived when other colonization efforts had failed.
In December 1606, the ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery, carrying 104 passengers, sailed for "Virginia." In May 1607, sixty miles up a river that they named the James after their king, they selected a defensible peninsula with good anchorage. They named it Jamestown. With the help of native Americans, with home they traded for food, it would survive as the first permanent settlement in America. |