 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...this page bring back vividly the history of Virginia. First is the ruins of the church at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement within the- limits of the United States. The church was built about a century before the Declaration of Independence, while the little village... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...metallic furniture, shoes, and flour. Pop. (1910) 31,297. Jamestown, a district of James City co., Va., the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States; founded in 1607 on a peninsula 32 miles from the mouth of James river. It has now become an island... | |
 | Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 1588
...a great historical pageant, the most important events that ever transpired on this continent, from the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States, founded at Jamestown, in the year 1607, to the present time ; and Whereas, one of the chief designs... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 914
...globe. In the year 1607 Jamestown, so named in honor of the king, was founded in Virginia. This was the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States. In 1620 some Separatists, or Pilgrims, who had found in Holland a temporary refuge from persecution,... | |
 | 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 950
...originally a peninsula extending into the James river about 32 miles from its mouth and is thr site of the first permanent English settlement within the limits of the United States. This settlement was made in 1607. The site was ill chosen and malarious and the early history of the... | |
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... Trade Settlements. — The reign of James I. is signalized by the commencement of that system of colonization which has resulted in the establishment of the English race in almost every quarter of the globe. In the year 1607 Jamestown, so named in... 
