Most of the Americans brought to Jamestown in the beginning died of diseases,food, and not having warm shelter. Most of them were gentlemen who were looking for quick money. They did not how to survive in the wilderness.
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21 slaves were bought from a shipwrecked Dutch ship in exchange for supplies in 1619
John Rolfe an Englishman brought the first tobacco seeds to Jamestown on a visit.
The first successful british colonly was Jamestown, VA!
by a powerful leader named captain John Smith
Permanent colonization of the New World began in 1607 with the English settlement of Jamestown, in what we now call Virginia. From the beginning, Jamestown, which was named after King James I, had its troubles.