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Jamestown is founded by The Virginia Company of England. -
The winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown is referred to as the "starving time." Disease, violence, drought, a meager harvest followed by a harsh winter, and poor drinking water left the majority of colonists dead that winter. -
They got married in Jamestown. -
The first colonists arrived in 1624 in support of a small trading post at Fort Orange in present-day Albany on the upper Hudson River, or the Dutch-named Noord Rivier. -
Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. -
The people we know as Pilgrims have become so surrounded by legend that we are tempted to forget that they were real people. Against great odds, they made the famous 1620 voyage aboard the ship Mayflower and founded Plymouth Colony, but they were also ordinary English men and women. -
This letter from Peter Schaghen, written in 1626, makes the earliest known reference to the company's purchase of Manhattan Island from the Lenape Indians for 60 guilders. -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony charter of 1629 was a royal document that gave the Massachusetts Bay Company permission by the English crown to establish a colony in New England. The charter was granted by King Charles. -
It was founded by people who were against war and violence. -
King Charles I had approved a request from George Calvert to establish a colony called the Province of Maryland. -
Thomas Hooker founded the Connecticut Colony after a disagreement with the church leadership in Massachusetts. He was key in the development of the new colony including inspiring the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. -
With a few followers, Williams founded the colony of Providence in present-day Rhode Island in 1636.