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The three ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery sighted the land of Virginia.
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In 1907 around December.John Smith got captured by a Powhatan hunting party.
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In 1608,Smith was elected to be president of the Virginia council.
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In 1610-1611 John Rolfe began experimenting with tobacco seeds.
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The Virginia company recieved a Third Charter from James I. granting more land to the company.
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John Rolfe sent his first shipment of tobacco to England.
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The general assembly meets in the choir of the Jamestown church. Its first law requires tobacco to be sold for at least three shillings per pound.
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In the summer of 1619 twenty africans came to the colony to work as indentured servants. these servants worked for four to seven years in exchange for their passage
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In 1620 ninety young women landed in Jamestown on the Bride Ship, to be served as wives for planters.
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The Powhatan Indian atttack kills 347 colonists, setting off a war that lasted a decade.
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The Abigail arrives with no food and an infectious load of passengers, plague and starvation reduce the colony to 500 persons.
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The Virginia Company loses its charter, Virginia becomes a royal province due to mismanagement of the colony.
