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The English tried again to settle Roanoke.
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English merchants started the Virginia Company of London.
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About 100 men and boys traveled to Present Day Virginia.
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Life in Jamestown was still hard but smith went back to England in 1609.
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A settler named John Rolfe learned from local Indians who tought him that tobaco grows well in Virginias hot humid weather.
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John Rolfe got married to Pocahontas.
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In 1620 about 100 men, woman and children set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the English ship called the Mayflower.
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Governor William Bradford held a celebration feast called Thanksgiving.
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In 1630 Winthrop and his followers arrived in the town of Salem North of Plymouth in June 1630.
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King Charles the 2nd decided in 1681 to give William Penn land in the New World that was Southwest of New Jersey.
