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Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown
The trips aboard the ships Susan Constant, Discovery, and the Godspeed, and the settlement itself, were sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, whose stockholders hoped to make a profit from the resources of the New World. The community suffered terrible hardships in its early years, including starvation and native attacks. With resupply and additional immigrants, it managed to endure, becoming America's first permanent English colony.[3]
Quickly after the first supply, Captain Newport boarded 70 new colonists to the Mary and Margaret[note 2]. First women colonists are noted with female sign (♀️).
Thomas Abbey (Abbay), Gentleman
Gabriell Bedle (Bedell),[19] Gentleman and Lumberjack
In July, a tropical storm struck the flotilla. The Catch vanished with all aboard, and the Sea Venture shipwrecked on Bermuda, inadvertently colonizing the island.[30] The seven remaining ships arrived at Jamestown only to bring diseased and hungry passengers to the stressed colony.[31][32]
Council members in bold.[5][6] Those who died at sea or in Bermuda are indicated with a Latin cross (✝️). Titles and occupations are from era accounts, but use modern British spellings.
Bermuda's Walsingham Bay and region namesakes are due to Robert. Walsingham piloted (and saved) the Patience during launch from Castle Harbour reefs.[51]
James Want
John Want
Sea Venture
Refused to build boats to be rescued or to leave Bermuda[36]
Edward Waters
Lieutenant (soldier)
Robert Waters
Sea Venture
Murdered shipmate Edward Samuell.[36]Taken into custody, then to a tree and left to starve, but escaped by cutting the ropes. Remained in Bermuda afterward.
Survivors from Bermuda (137-142 passengers and crew)[53] salvaged the Sea Venture, and built two ships: Deliverance and Patience.[40] The ships made it to Jamestown on May 23rd to find only 60 starving colonists, and chose to abandon the colony.
At the same time, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr and Samuel Argall (after hearing of John Smith's adventures), led a humanitarian mission from England with 150 men (including a doctor, some Frenchmen, a Swiss miner[54]) and supplies.[55] Aboard the Hercules of Rye, Blessing of Plymouth, and De La Warr[note 6] ships, they intercepted the weary colonists departing Virginia and compelled them to return to Jamestown with the new provisions and passengers.[56]
Inc. September, the Dainty arrived with "twelve men, one woman, three horses, and provisions..."[61] Captained by Nathaniel West, the Mary Ann brought over widow Mistress Francis West.[63] The Mary and Thomas[note 7] brought over William Tucker.[65]
The Hercules of Rye, which had left Virginia in July 1610, returned with Captain Adams in April, 1611 with 30 immigrants.[66]
Settlers from Fifth Supply (May and August 1611)
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Both Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates both led flotillas back to Virginia. Thomas Dale headed to the colony with 300 labourers, at the request of the London Company. The Starr, the Elizabeth, and Prosperous also carried horses, poultry, goats, and rabbits.[67][68] Thomas Gates had ships Sarah,[69]Tryall [sic][note 8], Swan[note 9] which arrived just after the Dale flotilla.
^Dates are in Old Style calendar (the New Year begins on March 25).[7]
^Ship name, Mary and Margaret is sometimes documented as Mary Ann Margett
^It is unclear which ship William Capps arrived on. Capps was potentially marooned on Bermuda with the Sea Venture (most likely) or could have arrived safely to Virginia with Thomas Gates remaining flotilla.[35]
^Not to be confused with an English immigrant in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with the same name and same named-wife.
^There is conflicting data on whether Jane Pierce (daughter of William and Joan) sailed with her father aboard Sea Venture or her mother on the Blessinge.[45][44] It is also debated if the found remains of a "Jane" are the same girl.[46]
^A third ship, De La Warr (Delaware) name is debated, and even the ship itself to exist
^Ship Mary and Thomas is often referred to as Mary and James[64]
^Ship name is an alternate spelling of "Trial", sometimes written as Triall[70]
^Swan ship might have been called Swan of Barnsataple[71]
^Woodward, Hobson (2009). "A brave vessel: the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare's The tempest". Viking. ISBN9780670020966.
^Verrill, Addison Emery (1902). The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions, Physiography, Natural History and Geology, with Sketches of Their Discovery and Early History, and the Changes in Their Flora and Fauna Due to Man. Creative Media Partners, LLC. p. 439. ISBN9780341970989.
^McCartney, Martha W. (2007). Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 703. ISBN9780806317748.
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