That would mean that even before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, the American melting pot already was bubbling with a diverse genetic mixture of English and Native Americans ...

Jamestown settlement • English saved by Native Americans Not ... While the world of colonial America was controlled by the wealthy Englishmen, most immigrants were poor men under 25 years ...

That little-remembered century—1600 to 1700—that began with the founding (and foundering) of the first permanent English settlement in America, the one called Jamestown, whose endemic perils ...

The site is so astounding because the fort's grounds, where the first English settlers landed in 1607 to form what became America’s first permanent English settlement, were thought to have ...

The settlement was established in 1612 ... D.C.—the colony’s population was quickly dwarfed by English emigration to North America and the Caribbean. Soon ecological disasters forced planters ...

The Virginia Company of London was desperate to populate its struggling colony in America. Twelve years earlier, in 1607, three ships carrying about 100 English colonists -- most of them men ...

The first two English adventurers to try to make it ... Still, he wasn't quite ready to give up on a North American settlement, outfitting one final expedition there. On May 8, 1587, about 100 ...