timber and other commodities to ship back to London. But Jamestown proved to be neither paradise nor gold mine. In the heat of that first summer at the mosquito-infested settlement, 46 of the ...

Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists ... By the spring of 1610, only sixty colonists of the original nine hundred were still alive.

In 1917, he created this depiction of the 1619 arrival of Virginia's first blacks ... the blacks from a Spanish ship, are negotiating a trade with the Jamestown settlers for food.

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Jamestown is an excellent example of how early ... and the Discovery. The ships first landed in British settlements in the West Indies, then arrived in Chesapeake Bay in late April 1607.