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Before Virginia was a colony, settlers came over to a town called Jamestown in search of gold. It was in a low lying swamp between two rivers and the conditions were awful. Food wasn't a priority to the settlers, and many died from malaria. John Smith came in to make rules so the settlers could survive and actually make a profit for England.

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