my timeline By helamanp 1607 Jamestown was America’s first permanent English settlement. 1619 This year marked the first legislative assembly, the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, and the arrival of the first families in Jamestown 1620 The Pilgrims settled at Plymouth, creating a colony based on religious beliefs. 1630 Puritans came to Massachusetts in the first large wave of immigrants, bringing strong religious values and new ideas about community. 1638 Anne Hutchinson was banished for her religious beliefs and later helped found Rhode Island, which supported religious freedom. 1688 This war began long-lasting conflicts between Native Americans, colonists, the British, and the French. 1692 The trials show how fear and mass hysteria can cause people to make dangerous and unfair decisions.