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Essay on The fall of Jamestown
Jamestown (Virginia), former village of Virginia, is the first permanent English settlement in America. It is located in present-day James City County, on an island in the James River, southeast of Richmond, part of the 3816-hectare (9430-acre) Colonial National Historical Park.Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607, by a small group led by Captain Christopher Newport, who was hired by the London Company to transport colonists. Many settlers died from famine and disease in the winter of 1609-10. The survivors were encouraged to stay in Jamestown by the arrival of new settlers and supplies the following June.
In Jamestown people had many bad times. Here are some of those times. Most the Men were gentlemen that hadn’t done an ounce of work in their life so they ate the food and didn’t work making food low (Stahle et al 1998). They landed at the wrong spot and it was marsh lowland filled with disease and mosquitoes that carried them. Many of the people died on the way there from harsh conditions. When they landed they were attacked by the Algonquin Indians. In the first year half had died.The Jamestown settlement suffered one dreadful disaster after another (Blanton, 2000). Captain John Smith held the group together when he took control from mid-1608 to mid-1609. He forced the adventurers to stop searching for gold and silver and to start working for their survival, and he bought corn from the Indians. But an accident in 1609 forced Smith to return to England for treatment.
Fire, drought, Indian attacks, disease, starvation, and lack of another strong leader brought the settlement to its lowest ebb in the winter of 1609-1610 (Blanton, 2000). Later colonists called that winter "the starving time." The living conditions in Jamestown were poor because a lot of colonists were dying of diseases. It was a poor spot for health reasons, due to the swampy land......
