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    The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of...
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    Jamestown, also Jamestowne, was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the...
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    Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia, created in 1957 as Jamestown Festival Park for the 350th anniversary...
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  • Jamestown often refers to: Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas Jamestown may also refer to Jamestown, South Australia...
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    colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony...
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    is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known...
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    boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of...
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    of inland Canada. The company established the Jamestown Settlement in present-day Jamestown, Virginia on 14 May 1607, about 40 miles inland along the...
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    people — a quarter of the population of the Colony of Virginia. Founded in 1607, Jamestown, Virginia, was the site of the first successful English settlement...
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    of the second colony was the Virginia Company, chartered by King James I, with its first two settlements being in Jamestown on the north bank of the James...
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    Pocahontas (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network...
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    John Rolfe (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    Rolfe Negatives," in The Virginia Genealogist, 34(1990):209-210} A project of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, Jamestown had been established by...
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    37.208528; -76.778389 Jamestown Church, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, is one of the oldest...
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    timber church on Jamestown Island, Virginia. The unicameral Assembly was composed of the Governor, a Council of State appointed by the Virginia Company, and...
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  • Jamestown is a British drama television series, written by Bill Gallagher and produced by Carnival Films, an NBC Universal International Television Production...
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    Jamestown, Virginia. The city incorporated in 1883. In 1873, Stutsman County became the first official county within Dakota Territory with Jamestown as...
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    Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and by the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin during the early...
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  • Starving Time at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was a period of starvation during the winter of 1609–1610. There were about 500 Jamestown residents at...
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  • The New World (2005 film) (category Films set in Virginia)
    written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith...
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  • 1, 1608) was a member of the first council appointed at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia. Kendall arrived with the founding fleet, and was sworn to...
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  • Robert Hunt (chaplain) (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    founded the first successful English colony in the New World, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Hunt was born in Hoath, near Reculver, in Kent, England...
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  • Norfolk, England at age 14 to sail to Virginia Colony aboard the ship Unity, as a part of the Third Supply to the Jamestown Colony in 1609. He is remembered...
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  • John Ratcliffe (governor) (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    English-claimed Virginia to found a colony, arriving 26 April 1607. He later became the second president of the colony of Jamestown. He was killed by...
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    Jamestown Island is a 1,561-acre (632 ha; 2.439 sq mi) island in the James River in Virginia, part of James City County. It is located off Glasshouse Point...
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    Jack of plate (category Jamestown, Virginia)
    Americans. One dating back to 1607 was found on Jamestown Island, the first settlement of the Colony of Virginia, in 2005. Barbara Tuchman. A Distant Mirror...
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    Stephen Hopkins (merchant) (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and arriving at Jamestown, Virginia in May 1610. Hopkins left Jamestown in 1614 and returned to England. Hopkins was baptized...
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    Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating...
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    at Lawne's Creek parish church across from Jamestown in December 1673, and in 1674 two rebellions in Virginia failed for want of leaders. Meanwhile, Susquehannock...
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    colonists arrived and established Jamestown in 1607 on the southern shore of the Virginia Peninsula in the Colony of Virginia. In 1619, the area which is now...
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    Don Bexley (category People from Jamestown, Virginia)
    1970s television sitcom Sanford and Son. Bexley was born in either Jamestown, Virginia, or Detroit, Michigan, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bexley. His father...
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