Where was jamestown located in 1607

Town and fort established in the Virginia Colony

Fort and Town

The Jamestown^[a] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about &#;mi (4&#;km) southwest of present-day Williamsburg.^[1] It was established by the London Company as "James Fort" on May 4, O.S.

(May 14, N.S.),^[2] and considered permanent, after brief abandonment in It followed failed attempts, including the Roanoke Colony, established in Despite the dispatch of more supplies, only 60 of the original settlers survived the – Starving Time. In mid, the survivors abandoned Jamestown, though they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River.

Jamestown served as the colonial capital from until In August , the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived at present-day Old Point Comfort, near the Jamestown colony, on a Brit