Jamestown: England Dreams of a New Colony

Over one hundred years after Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, the English King James created two companies of merchants establish a new colony there. These companies were called the London Company and the Plymouth Company. The London Company, later known as the Virginia Company, was the first to make the voyage that was commanded by a famous sea captain named Christopher Newport. They set sail in December 1606, with three small ships and a hundred and five people including carpenters, blacksmiths, barbers, and masons to help build the colony and set up trade when they arrived in America.

The voyage was long and difficult. 'When the first colonist reached the New World they arrived at Chesapeake Bay and named each side of the bay Cape Henry and Cape Charles for the King's two sons. Out of the Bay was a great...
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