Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635 - A Biographical Dictionary by Martha W. McCartney

In 1607 America's first permanent English colony was planted on Jamestown Island, in Virginia. However, the majority--the ordinary men, women, and children, whose efforts enabled the colony to become viable--simply escaped notice. As a result, 400 years later, we still yearn to know more about Virginia's earliest settlers. Who were they? Where did they live and what obstacles did they face in their attempts to survive? In an attempt to answer these and other questions, this book brings together a broad variety of widely scattered primary sources that inform the reader about the Virginia colony's earliest inhabitants and the sparsely populated communities in which they lived.

This book includes biographies of Africans, Dutch, French, Germans, Irish, Italians, Native Americans, Poles, and others who made significant contributions to the early success of the Virginia colony.

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