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The Jamestown Colony
By Cindy Grigg |
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1 A group of 144 English colonists came to Virginia in May 1607. They called their settlement Jamestown in honor of England's king, James I. The land was covered by forests, rivers, and mountains. Life wasn't easy for these first colonists. They didn't know how to grow their own food. They wasted time looking for gold. They slept on the hard ground. They drank unsafe water from the swampy James River. Mosquitoes plagued them. Lack of food ..... |
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