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Jamestown was the first permanent English Colony in America, founded in 1607. The colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London. Three ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, left England in 1606, with 105 passengers. They arrived on the Virginia coast in late April 1608.

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