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100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.
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The Virginia company are two companies charted by James. They were the people that started Jamestown
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Disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure
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John Rolfe discovered tobacco and it made Jamestown success
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Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east
