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The London Company sent 3 ships to VA with 104 men in December 1606 and they arrived on the James River April 26, 1607. The area they chose for the fort was good to defend, but with bad water and mosquitoes. By 1608, when Cap. John Smith arrived, most of the 104 were all ready dead or sick.

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