On May 6, 1607 three ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery , sailed in search of treasures, among other things. On April 26, 1607 they found “ The New Land ,” wherethey decided to settle in, the settlers named this new land “Jamestown” in honor of theirking, King James the I of England. Jamestown was the first English settlement in America.The site of Jamestown in which the settlers decided to built their colony was ainadequate choice. The area was swampy, saturated with mosquitoes, and the drinkingwater was impure, Jamestown was a unhealthy and dangerous place to live in.The colony suffered one disaster after another, men where dying do to starvation, disease and fruitless grounds, during the winter of 1609, also known as “ The StarvingTime .” the colony used force against the Indians to obtain food and water, they sodesperately needed, this caused the Indians to retaliate.Starvation, disease and Indian attacks was too much for the Jamestown settlers tohandle, and therefore they decided to abandon the colony and head back to England. Ontheir voyage back to England they came across some ships heading toward Jamestown,these ships had plenty of supplies and merchandise, causing the Jamestown survivors tohead back to Jamestown. The new ships where under the leadership of John Smith andLord De La War.During the early 1600’s more then thirty Indian tribes in the area united to form aconfederacy under the mighty chief Powhattan, father of the Indian Princess Pocahontas,who was reported to have saved the life of John Smith. Pocahontas later than married oneof the Jamestown’s colonist, this marriage brought about 8 years of peace between thesettlers and the Indians.In 1612, a new type of tobacco leaf was introduce to the colony, by 1617 tobaccowas being exported and it became the progress to wealth for many people in the colony,with time, over manufacturing of this tobacco wee...
