The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men ...

For the Jamestown colony, established in 1607 in what is now Virginia, that purpose was establishing the first English settlement in the new world. Yaddo is an artist’s colony, where creative ...

study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and ...

Despite its success, the colony of Jamestown experienced ... Bay in late April 1607. When they arrived, the settlers opened orders from their sponsor, the Virginia Company. These orders had ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607 ... servants became vital to the colonial economy.