Notes:BC1:Survival in the early Virginia settlements
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2014/05/30 User:Jeff
The first English people to arrive at the James River area of Virginia were in for hard times. 53 of the 197 colonists who sailed for Virginia from England in 1606 and 1607 were alive in April 1608. These were frightful odds. These first few were brave by definition. They left civilization to be the founders of civilization where none existed. But they were braving the unknown and had no way of knowing what they were in for. Surely expeditions had sailed form England before and there were even French and Spanish colonies in the Indies and Central America. It is unclear what
