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Fortuitously, on June 9, 1610, De La Warr arrived on the James River just as the settlers had abandoned Jamestown. Intercepting them about 10 miles (16 km) downstream from Jamestown near Mulberry Island (adjacent to present-day Fort Eustis in Newport News), the new governor forced the remaining 90 settlers to return.
In mid-1610, the survivors abandoned Jamestown, though they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River. Jamestown served as the colonial capital from 1616 until 1699. In August 1619, the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived at present-day Old Point Comfort , near the Jamestown colony, on a British ...
June 19 1610: George Somers and Samuel Argall sail for Bermuda to gather wild hogs for Jamestown. [ 10 ] July 20, 1610: Christopher Newport and Thomas Gates leave Virginia (on the Blessinge and Hercules [ 28 ] ) for England, where he will use his story of the Sea Venture wreck to advocate for the colony and to spur further investment.
Population chart of Virginia, including Roanoke Colony and Jamestown numbers. Among the survivors of the Sea Venture who arrived at Jamestown in May 1610, and were turned back by Lord Delaware, was a young Englishman named John Rolfe. His wife and young daughter had perished during the journey and delay at Bermuda.
May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the "starving time" (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty ...
On reaching Jamestown, only 60 of the 500 settlers previously landed there were found alive through the winter of 1609–1610 which became known as the "Starving Time". The condition of the settlement was so poor that on June 7, 1610, Gates decided to abandon the floundering settlement and return to England.
After Jamestown burned down in 1676, ... The winter of 1609-1610, known as the "Starving Time," was particularly brutal, with only 60 of the original 214 settlers surviving. The colony was saved ...
Wowinchopunk's wife was executed in Jamestown. [7] [8] The Paspahegh never recovered from this attack and abandoned their town. A party of colonists was ambushed at Appomattoc in the fall of 1610, and De La Warr managed to establish a company of men at the falls of the James, who stayed there all winter. In February 1611, Wowinchopunk was ...