London Company. They were a group of investors who sent 104 men to look for gold. The intent was not to establish a colony, but to make people rich. The outcome of the colony was an accident.
Jamestown was established/founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony in America.
Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the New World. It was founded in Virginia in 1607 by around 100 English colonists. The ships that they came across in were the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery.
The first permanent (and successful) English settlement founded in the "New World" was the Jamestown colony. Founded in 1607, it was located in what would become the state of Virginia, in the central Eastern seaboard region of the American colonies -- and, eventually, of the United States.
It was the first permanent English settlement.
The general consensus is that the first permanent English settlement in America was Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. However, the oldest permanent English settlement in North America is St. John's, NL, Canada, established in 1583 according to records on and from Sir Humphrey Gilbert, making this fact as credible as (or even more so), claims from other, more Ameri-centric, "historians".
In 1607 on May 14, Jamestown was founded.
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America founded by the English on May 14th, 1607.
Virgina was founded by English and their first permanent settlement was Jamestown in honor of King James.
jamestownIn 1607 the Virginia Company of London established the colony of Jamestowne as the first permanent New World English colony.
Jamestown, is the first permanent English settlement in North America. It was founded in 1607.
Jamestown was established/founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony in America.
First English settlement is Jamestown located in Virginia.
The Virginia Company of London founded Jamestown (the 1st permanent settlement). There was also Roanoke, but that colony mysteriously disappeared.
Eager to move beyond the mysterious disappearance of the first settlement of Roanoke, Jamestown was established in 1607. It became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It served as the capital of Virginia Colony from 1616 until 1699.
Jamestown, VA was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the U.S.; founded in 1607.
Jamestown, founded on May 14, 1607, was the first permanent English colony established in America.
Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first successful permanent English settlement in what would become the United States.