Search results for "Jamestown, Virginia" - New World Encyclopedia
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- permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. His interactions ... dissenters in Massachusetts in 1620, Jamestown was founded largely for ...17 KB (2,676 words) - 07:51, 3 August 2022
- tribes that they dominated. Also known as Virginia Algonquians, they spoke ... minister Alexander Whiteaker in Jamestown, Virginia; this event is believed ...22 KB (3,366 words) - 00:30, 12 April 2023
- tribes in the Tidewater region of Virginia. Pocahontas' life has ... Ordway Partridge, was erected in Jamestown, Virginia in 1922]] ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 08:11, 24 November 2022
- Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's ... York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. More ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
- warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (the latter rebuilt from ... The naval battle lasted two days. The first day saw Virginia wreak ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- The Commonwealth of Virginia is a Southeastern state considered part ... The Virginia Colony was the first part of the Americas to be continuously ...41 KB (5,879 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee ... first established a settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. They were sponsored ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- on the North American continent, at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, in Newfoundland ... 7000 tobacconists and smoking houses. The Virginia colony survived because ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- before him. Having heard rumors by way of Jamestown and John Smith, he and ... the English flag. For this voyage, the Virginia and British East India Companies ...9 KB (1,487 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- at Berkeley Hundred on the James River, Virginia, on December 4, 1619. ... ====The Virginia colony==== On December 4, 1619, 38 English settlers ...36 KB (5,333 words) - 15:08, 30 April 2023
- The first two British colonies in Virginia had failed, and a more determined ... more than their contents. The colony of Virginia far surpassed Bermuda in ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- to James I for letters patent to colonize Virginia, which were granted in 1606. The settlement in Jamestown, unlike the Plymouth colony, represented ...37 KB (5,465 words) - 20:16, 8 December 2022
- and produced in or around Smithfield, Virginia, to be sold as such. ... County in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It is one of the most popular ...27 KB (4,434 words) - 16:58, 21 January 2024
- in Massachusetts and compares with Jamestown, Virginia (1607). It is the ... in what is today the United States. Jamestown, Virginia (1607) is of similar ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- ===The Virginia Companies compete=== issued two charters, one each for the Virginia Companies, of London and ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- World. Unlike the colonists who settled Jamestown as a commercial venture ... Maine and of the hardships faced by the Jamestown settlement in Virginia ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 20:39, 9 April 2023
- founders of the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia who had also explored ... 1620, bound for the northern part of the Virginia Colony. ...41 KB (6,248 words) - 19:30, 26 October 2021
- a rival claim to that established at Jamestown (Holetown) by colonists ... to England valued at some £196,532. Virginia and Maryland were the only ...20 KB (2,790 words) - 23:06, 20 November 2023
- the south by Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia; on the west by Ohio; and ... 3rd Baron De La Warr, the Governor of Virginia from 1610 until 1618. At ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- for five days before founding the U.S. colony of Virginia. Captain Smith documented the many hot springs in Nevis, whose waters had remarkable curative ...25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
