Social Studies Chapter 2 By WyFern 1400 1400 1585 Roanoke Island is settled. 1590 Roanoke Island is abandoned. 1607 Jamestown is settled. 1619 House of Burgesses is first legislature in North America. 1619 First enslaved Africans are brought to North America. 1620 Separatists on the Mayflower settle at Plymouth. 1629 Puritans under John Winthrop settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1639 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut becomes first written constitution in America. 1660 William Penn is given land, which becomes Pennsylvania. 1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Netherland to the English. 1676 Nathaniel Bacon attacks Native American villages and Jamestown. 1733 Georgia is set up for debtors and poor people to make a fresh start.