With the 400th anniversary of the colony's founding ... the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities ( APVA ) discovered a portion of the decayed ruins of the original 1607 Jamestown fort, a ...

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 ...

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.