Jamestown


 * Jamestown**
 * Founded May 14, 1607.
 * Reguarded as the First English Settlement.[[image:jamestown_fort.jpg width="288" height="211" align="right"]]
 * Founded By a man Named John Smith
 * Locaded on an Jamestown Island, wich is a Island near the Mouth of the James River on the Southern end of Chesapeak Bay in Virgina.
 * The site the picked had three (or for 4 as "Sepc #1" is somewaht included in "spec # 4" )specifications defined to them as:
 * 1) The Settlement had to locaded on the shore near the not to far upstream from the mouth of the river or isolated from the sea sa for easy means of accses and of escape by ship.
 * 2) Had to be in a point where the river narrower considerably so as musket and cannon volleys could easly reach the far bank and cover most of the river to help defened from naval or native attack.
 * 3) The land had to be fertille to farm.
 * 4) Their could be no Native (Virgina Indians) settlements between the settlement (Jamestown) and the sea.
 * The Island that Jamestown was Located on was primarily a marshy and malaria swamp, which bred many isects carring diseases, and was poor for farming.
 * About 100 settlers set out for Jamestown, mostly nobility who were not used to doing work, and arrived late with supplies unitentionaly low from the original planned amout. Because of this of the 100 settlers that set out about only half (50) survived the winter and into next spring as many died out from disease,or starvation.