The sailing vessel Mayflower was headed for Virginia, but due to poor navigation and a bit of rough weather she ended up in New England.
The Queengave permission for John smith to settle in Virginia .
The Mayflower passengers really had no clue in terms of where they were going to settle. While they believed it would be somewhere down the Eastern seaboard, their arrival in Plymouth pretty much dispelled that.
The reason the colonists chose to found a settlement in Virginia was because of the land and its resources. The first settlement in Virginia was the Jamestown settlement.
The Virginia Company was a split off from the London Company, which was the wealthy group of aristocrats in England that had invested in exploration and colonization in the New World. The Jamestown Colony consisted of the men who were from the Virginia Company, and others who were paid to go.
The sailing vessel Mayflower was headed for Virginia, but due to poor navigation and a bit of rough weather she ended up in New England.
The sailing vessel Mayflower was headed for Virginia, but due to poor navigation and a bit of rough weather she ended up in New England.
The Virginia Company of London (otherwise known as the London Company), under the leadership of Bartholomew Gosnold, was given permission by James I of England to settle and trade in Virginia. This company was a subsidiary of the larger Virginia Company that also owned the Plymouth Company that settle Massachusetts.
They were looking for religious freedom in the Virginia area and were blown off course.
The Queengave permission for John smith to settle in Virginia .
The Mayflower passengers really had no clue in terms of where they were going to settle. While they believed it would be somewhere down the Eastern seaboard, their arrival in Plymouth pretty much dispelled that.
The reason the colonists chose to found a settlement in Virginia was because of the land and its resources. The first settlement in Virginia was the Jamestown settlement.
they settle cuz they needed new stuf.
Virginia
british
In virginia.
because the pilgrams settle in the usa and celebrated thanksgiving and one of the foods served was turky and so it became a tradition