Four hundred years ago, at the end of 1606, three ships set sail from
what is now Virginia Quay in London. Five months later, on 14 May 1607,
the 105 men on board the Discovery, Godspeed and Susan Constant arrived
at the site on the east coast of America where they would establish the
first permanent English settlement on that continent. They named it
Jamestowne, after James I, who was king of England at the time.

Thirteen years before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the
Mayflower, the Jamestown settlers were building a fort, church and houses
on an island on the James river. They were to lose some of their number
in clashes with native Indians and many more due to disease, largely
caused by unhygienic water supplies. Twenty-five of them died in just
four weeks and almost half of the original colonists were dead by the end
of the settlement's first summer.

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