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The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
With resupply and additional immigrants, it managed to endure, becoming America's first permanent English colony. [ 4 ] Once the settlement location was chosen, the company members opened sealed instructions containing the list of the previously chosen councillors of the Virginia Governor's Council .
This ship brought with it the first two women to come to Jamestown, one of whom was Thomas Forrest's second wife Margaret Foxe and the other Anne Burras, Margaret's "maid". Thomas Forrest is said in genealogies [ 1 ] that he and Margaret had married on August 16, 1605, in St. Giles in the Fields, London, England, four years after Peter was born.
c. October 1, 1608 (): Newport and the "second supply" mission ship (the Mary and Margaret) arrive in Jamestown, adding about 70 settlers to the colony. Included are Jamestown Polish craftsmen , "Dutch" (German) carpenters and glassmakers, [ 13 ] and two English women: Mistress Margaret Fox Forrest and Anne Burras .
The James Fort c. 1608 as depicted on the map by Pedro de Zúñiga. Jamestown, also Jamestowne, was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the seat of government was moved to Williamsburg.
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Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission flotilla to the Jamestown Colony in 1609. She was the 300 ton flagship of the London Company . During the voyage to Virginia, Sea Venture encountered a tropical storm and was wrecked, with her crew and passengers landing on the uninhabited Bermuda .
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