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 These first few were brave by definition.  They left civilization to found new civilization where none existed.  But they were braving the unknown, and being first to the area, had little information about what they were in for.  The promises made by the Virginia Company about what emigrants were to receive were attractive - and they were true enough, but they did not disclose the conditions the colonists would have to survive.
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-Sources: Channing, Vol 1, Chapters VI and VII
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-|HasArticleText=The first English settlers 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.  And they did  not significantly improve for another 16 years.  These first few were brave by definition.  They left civilization to found new civilization where none existed.  But they were braving the unknown, and being first to the area, had no way of knowing what they were in for.
+|HasArticleText=The first English settlers to arrive at the James River area of Virginia were in for hard times.
-<!--Surely expeditions had sailed from England before and there were even French and Spanish colonies in the Indies and Central America. But these were peopled by explorers and adventurers who likely had different expectations and -->
+:*53 of the 197 colonists who sailed for Virginia from England in 1606 and 1607 were alive in April 1608.
-The colonists who travelled to America under this charter met with hardship that ended in the death of many of them.
+These were frightful odds.  And they did  not significantly improve for another 16 years.  The colonists who travelled to America under the first Virginia Charter of 1606 met with hardship that ended in the death of many of them.
 :*December 20, 1606, The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery sailed for the southern part of Virginia.
 ::16 of the 120 died on the voyage.
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 ::"During the years 1618 to 1624, Sandys, . . . made great and successful efforts to send over colonists and supplies; in three years' time no fewer than 3570 emigrants crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. As there were six hundred . . living in the colony at the beginning of this period, the total number . . . to be accounted for is 4170. In March 1622, before the Indian massacre, there were living in Virginia twelve hundred English colonists, showing that in three years nearly three thousand persons had perished from disease and starvation. The "massacre" cost the lives of three hundred and forty-seven more. Instead of carefully searching out the causes of the disasters, the company continued to pour setters into the colony; but in 1624, when a careful enumeration was made, there were only 1232 colonists alive, including in this number twenty three negro slaves."
-Reports from members of Sandys' own family who traveled to Virginia painted a grim picture of the conditions of life in Virginia in those days.
+::Reports from members of Sandys' own family who traveled to Virginia painted a grim picture of the conditions of life in Virginia in those days.
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-|HasArticleText=The first English settlers 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 founder a civilization where none existed.  But they were braving the unknown, and being first to the area, had no way of knowing what they were in for.
+|HasArticleText=The first English settlers 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.  And they did  not significantly improve for another 16 years.  These first few were brave by definition.  They left civilization to found new civilization where none existed.  But they were braving the unknown, and being first to the area, had no way of knowing what they were in for.
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 The colonists who travelled to America under this charter met with hardship that ended in the death of many of them.
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 :*In a 12 month period in 1622 to 1623, 347 died in the Indian massacre and 1000 died en route to Virginia or in the colony
-These words are from Channing's Vol 1 (pg 205)[1]
+These words are from Channing's Vol 1 (pg 205)<ref name="Channing Vol I">Channing, Edward. ''History of the United States, Vol I, The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000 - 1660''. New York. The MacMillan Company. 1909</ref>
 ::"During the years 1618 to 1624, Sandys, . . . made great and successful efforts to send over colonists and supplies; in three years' time no fewer than 3570 emigrants crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. As there were six hundred . . living in the colony at the beginning of this period, the total number . . . to be accounted for is 4170. In March 1622, before the Indian massacre, there were living in Virginia twelve hundred English colonists, showing that in three years nearly three thousand persons had perished from disease and starvation. The "massacre" cost the lives of three hundred and forty-seven more. Instead of carefully searching out the causes of the disasters, the company continued to pour setters into the colony; but in 1624, when a careful enumeration was made, there were only 1232 colonists alive, including in this number twenty three negro slaves."
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