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... 76 KB (7,627 words) - 23:32, 5 April 2024 |
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... 64 KB (7,824 words) - 02:07, 19 April 2024 |
Jamestown often refers to: Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas Jamestown may also refer to Jamestown, South Australia... 4 KB (517 words) - 19:18, 14 April 2024 |
John Smith (explorer) (redirect from John Smith (Jamestown)) 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... 63 KB (7,542 words) - 07:34, 28 April 2024 |
is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known... 19 KB (2,022 words) - 13:29, 9 April 2024 |
boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of... 29 KB (2,236 words) - 20:52, 13 April 2024 |
of inland Canada. The company established the Jamestown Settlement in present-day Jamestown, Virginia on 14 May 1607, about 40 miles inland along the... 19 KB (1,760 words) - 16:42, 10 November 2023 |
Indian massacre of 1622 (redirect from Jamestown Massacre) 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... 23 KB (2,948 words) - 19:54, 11 April 2024 |
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... 59 KB (6,508 words) - 21:01, 13 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (1,956 words) - 23:00, 29 July 2023 |
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... 21 KB (2,616 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2024 |
House of Burgesses (redirect from Virginia House of Burgesses) timber church on Jamestown Island, Virginia. The unicameral Assembly was composed of the Governor, a Council of State appointed by the Virginia Company, and... 31 KB (3,467 words) - 16:44, 10 April 2024 |
Jamestown is a British drama television series, written by Bill Gallagher and produced by Carnival Films, an NBC Universal International Television Production... 33 KB (860 words) - 20:55, 31 March 2024 |
Jamestown, Virginia. The city incorporated in 1883. In 1873, Stutsman County became the first official county within Dakota Territory with Jamestown as... 32 KB (2,504 words) - 05:06, 28 April 2024 |
Apostle, later cited by John Smith in the early 1600s colony of Jamestown, Virginia, and by the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin during the early... 9 KB (1,186 words) - 20:03, 23 April 2024 |
Starving Time (redirect from Starving Time (Jamestown)) 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... 22 KB (3,092 words) - 13:57, 9 April 2024 |
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... 28 KB (2,932 words) - 09:16, 21 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,612 words) - 22:59, 30 December 2023 |
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... 4 KB (403 words) - 17:25, 18 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,137 words) - 22:53, 30 December 2023 |
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... 3 KB (300 words) - 19:36, 20 March 2024 |
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... 5 KB (522 words) - 14:59, 16 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,139 words) - 16:02, 30 March 2024 |
Bacon's Rebellion (redirect from Virginia Rebellion) 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... 61 KB (7,861 words) - 13:46, 3 April 2024 |
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... 31 KB (4,301 words) - 16:24, 5 April 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,031 words) - 13:53, 23 April 2024 |