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The first of the British colonies to take hold in North America was Jamestown. On the basis of a charter which King James I granted to the Virginia (or London) Company, a group of about 100 men set out for the Chesapeake Bay in 1607. Seeking to avoid conflict with the Spanish, they chose a site about 60 kilometers up the James River from the bay.

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The six and twentieth day of April, about four o’clock in the morning, we descried the Land of

Virginia. The same day we entered into the Bay of Chesupioc [Chesapeake] directly, without any let or

hindrance. There we landed and discovered [explored] a little way, but we could find nothing worth the

speaking of, but fair meadows and goodly tall Trees, with such Fresh-waters running through the woods,

as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof.

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