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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began ... this was the first colony in the British Empire
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In the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first legislative body in the British American colonies
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