Of the 10,000 who left England for Jamestown in its first fifteen years, only twenty percent were still alive, and still in Jamestown, in 1622. As historian Alan Taylor recounts, of the first 104 colonists who landed in April 1607, only thirty-eight survived the winter.

JAMESTOWN is justifiably called 'the first permanent English settlement' in the New Worlda hard-won designation.Isabella was the 'first of the Indies,' declares Antonio de Herrera, the seventeenth-century historian who compiled this history of early New Spain from state archives. Isabella barely survived until 1496 when Columbus ordered a new town built on the island as the Spanish capital (now Santo Domingo). Hunger and disease soon led to mutiny, punishment, disillusion, and more hunger and disease. ISABELLA was a small town that Columbus ordered his men to build on the northeastern shore of Hispaniola (in present-day Dominican Republic) during his second voyage to the New World in 1493.While the discussion may force us to define our terms, a valuable exercise, we will begin this topic, SETTLEMENT, with 'first arrivals'≾uropeans who cross the Atlantic, disembark on land unsettled by Europeans, find a suitable site, and begin to build with the intention of staying, not merely exploring. When we talk about the European settling of North America, the word 'first' creeps into the discussion very soonthe first ever, the first 'permanent,' the first 'permanent' that still exists today, the first with women and children, the first Spanish/French/English, etc. Spanish: Columbus's first settlement in the New World, 1493 (PDF)Įnglish: The first months of the Jamestown colony, 1607 (PDF)Įnglish: The first year of the Plymouth colony, 1620-21 (PDF)

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