effulgentpoet: history aesthetics JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Vir
effulgentpoet: history aesthetics JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the second permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James (Powhatan) River about 2.5 mi southwest of the center of modern Williamsburg, established on May 4, 1607. It followed several failed attempts, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jamestown served as the colonial capital from 1616 until 1699. The settlement was located within the country of Tsenacommacah, which belonged to the Powhatan Confederacy, and specifically in that of the Paspahegh tribe. The natives initially welcomed and provided crucial provisions and support for the colonists, who were not agriculturally inclined. Relations quickly soured, and the colonists would annihilate the Paspahegh in warfare within four years. Despite the dispatch of more settlers and supplies, including the 1608 arrival of eight Polish and German colonists and the first two European women, more than 80% of the colonists died in 1609-10, mostly from starvation and disease. In 1619, the first documented Africans came to Jamestown - about 50 men, women, and children aboard a Portuguese slave ship that had been captured in the West Indies. They most likely worked in the tobacco fields as slaves. In 1699, the colonial capital was moved to what is today Williamsburg, Virginia; Jamestown ceased to exist as a settlement, and remains today only as an archaeological site. -- source link
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