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Jamestown

[ jeymz-toun ]

noun

  1. a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957.
  2. a city in SW New York.
  3. a city in central North Dakota.
  4. a seaport in and the capital of St. Helena, in the S Atlantic Ocean.


Jamestown

/ ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. a ruined village in E Virginia, on Jamestown Island (a peninsula in the James River): the first permanent settlement by the English in America (1607); capital of Virginia (1607–98); abandoned in 1699


Jamestown

  1. The first permanent English settlement in North America , founded in 1607 in Virginia . Jamestown was named for King James I of England . It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.


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After all, Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 1500s, well before the Jamestown settlers in 1607 or the Pilgrims in 1620.

In 1611, cannabis was planted in Jamestown, Virginia, by order of the king.

Three weeks later, they had settled Jamestown, an unused bit of land the Native Americans had deemed undesirable.

Within the first nine months of life in Jamestown, the original 104 ship passengers had dwindled down to 38.

The crop of men landing at Jamestown were soldiers by trade, and all were accustomed to leadership roles.

Jamestown was for a long time the capital of the state, but has sunk into ruin, and is almost desolate.

Suppose you wish to find out what words will translate the date of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., 1607.

She was held as a hostage in Jamestown in an effort to restore peace between the Indians and the English.

Pocahontas had met and had become well acquainted with John Rolfe during her captivity at Jamestown.

Bacon and approximately four hundred planters marched to the State House at Jamestown and demanded his commission.

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