Jamestown Colony

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Jamestown Settlement | Jamestown, Virginia
2. The History Channel: Jamestown Colony
3. Historic Jamestowne: America's Birthplace
4. NOVA: Pocahontas Revealed
5. Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA): Jamestown Rediscovery
6. Virtual Jamestown: Jamestown Interactive
7. National Geographic: America in 1607

Jamestown Colony History and Information

• Virginia Historical Society: Contact and Conflict
• Library of Congress: Jamestown was Established
• Jamestown 1607: Stories of a Nation
• Library of Congress: Virginia Records, 1606-1737
• Colonial National Park Service: Jamestown vs Plymouth

Origin

• Wikipedia: London Company | Virginia Company
• Colonial National Historical Park: Virginia Company of London
• PBS: The Terrible Transformation
• Virginia Places: Jamestown - Why There?
• The National Center for Public Policy Research: The Settlement Of Jamestown - 1607
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Instructions for the Virginia Colony (1606)

Culture and Lifestyle

• Polish American Congress: The Role and Accomplishments of Polish Pioneers
• Jamestown Settlement: Cultures at Jamestown (8.7MB) 
• APVA: What did the colonists eat?
• Virtual Jamestown: First Hand Account by Captain John Smith | The Experiences of an Indentured Servant
• Wikipedia: House of Burgesses | Starving Time

Religion

• Leadership University: Faith and Freedom
• Church History for the Masses: Anglicanism in America
• Virtual Jamestown: Laws and Documents Relating to Religion

Jamestown Colony Timeline

• 1606: April, King James I issues a charter to the Virginia Company to establish settlements in North America
• 1606: December 20, Three ships the Godspeed, Discovery and Susan Constant leave London with Admiral Christopher Newport in command
• 1607: May 14, 104 settlers landed on the shores of North America to start the first permanent settlement which they named Jamestown
• 1607: May 26, Paspahegh Indians attack colonists killing 2 and wounding 10
• 1607: June 15, James Fort completed
• 1607: December 20, Captain John Smith leads expedition in search of food and is captured
• 1607: December 29, John Smith was brought before Powhatan and Pocahontas saves his life
• 1608: January, John Smith returns to James for finding only 38 colonists left alive and is accused of the death of his men during the expedition. Christopher Newport returns with the new colonists and stops Smiths execution
• 1608: September, More colonists arrive along with gifts for the Indians and a five piece barge to explore with and John Smith assumed presidency
• 1609: May, A Second Virgina Charter leaves England with 500 immigrants. Storms separate the ships and the Flagship Sea Venture lands in Bermuda
• 1609: September, John Smith was injured in a gun powder accident and forced to return to England
• 1609: The Starving Time occurred from the beginning of winter in 1909 carrying over into 1910
• 1610: May 23, The settlers that had been stranded on Bermuda for nine months arrived in rebuilt ships named Deliverance and Patience
• 1610: Sir Thomas Gates proclaims martial law
• 1610: June 8, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr arrives and convinces remaining settlers not to leave
• 1611: May, Sir Thomas Dale arrives with 300 new settlers
• 1612: John Rolfe plants a tobacco crop to help save the settlements economy
• 1612: Lord De La Warr issues legal code Lawes Divine, Morall and Martial which stays in effect till 1619
• 1613: June 4, Captain Samuel Argall captures Pocahontas and brings her to Jamestown as hostage
• 1613: John Rolfe marries Pocahontas
• 1619: Virginia House of Burgesses meets for the first time
• 1620: Women transported to make wifes for former tenants
• 1622: Powhatan Indians attack killing 347 colonists starting a war that lasted a decade
• 1634: The Shires of Virginia were formed
• 1644: April, The Powhatan Indians attack a second time
• 1660: William Berkeley elected to governorship
• 1676: Nathaniel Bacon leads Virginians against Indians against Berkeley's wishes
• 1698: Jamestown's fourth statehouse burns
• 1699: The capitol of Virginia Moves from Jamestown to Williamsburg

Jamestown Colony Major Events

The First Settlement

• The History Channel: First Residents of Jamestown, 1607
• APVA: Jamestown Fort | Jamestown Island
• HistoryWiz: James Fort
• America's Historic Triangle: The Jamestown Story

The Starving Time

• Library of Congress: The Starving Time: Winter of 1609-1610
• Wikipedia: The Starving Time (Jamestown)
• North Virginia Community College: John Smiths Account of the Starving Time
• The History Channel: Winter of the Starving Time, 1609–1610

Tobacco Trade: First Dependable Economy

• Chronicles of America: John Rolfe and Tobacco
• Beyond Books.com: The Growth of the Tobacco Trade
• NIAHD Journals: Tobacco Makes the World Go 'Round
• National Geographic: America Found & Lost

House of Burgesses

• Colonial National Park: The First Legislative Assembly
• The Avalon Project: Ordinances for Virginia; July 24-August 3, 1621
• Wikipedia: House of Burgesses

Indian Massacre of 1622

• Wikipedia: Indian Massacre of 1622
• Virtual Jamestown: Indian Attack of 1622
• Historynet.com: Powhatan Uprising of 1622

The Anglo-Powhatan Wars

• Virginia Places: The Anglo-Powhatan Wars
• Wikipedia: Anglo-Powhatan Wars
• Military Actions of the Powhatan Confederacy: Military Anglo-Powhatan Wars

Bacon's Rebellion

• Wikipedia: Bacon's Rebellion
• Colonial National Historical Park: Bacon's Rebellion
• The Great Trading Path: Bacon's Rebellion and the Defeat of the Saponi Tribes at Occoneechee Island

Jamestown Colony Major Historical Figures

Christopher Newport

• Wikipedia: Christopher Newport
• Christopher Newport University: About Captain Christopher Newport
• Harwich and Manningtree Standard: Remembering a Hero

Bartholomew Gosnold

• Wikipedia: Bartholomew Gosnold
• Cuttyhunk Historical Society: Bartholomew Gosnold
• Ancient Greece - Early America.com: Gosnold 1602

Edward Wingfield

• Virtual Jamestown: Edward Maria Wingfield | A Discourse of Virginia
• Wikipedia: Edward Maria Wingfield
• Wingfield Family Society: Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield

John Smith

• Mahalo's Guide to Captain John Smith
• Wikipedia: John Smith
• APVA: Captain John Smith
• Captain John Smith Four Hundred Project: John Smith History, Map, Journals and Voyages

Pocahontas

• Mahalo's Guide to Pocahontas
• APVA: Pocahontas
• Wikipedia: Pocahontas
• Virtual Jamestown: Pocahontas

Powhatan

• Mahalo's Guide to Chief Powhatan
• Virtual Jamestown: Powhatan
• APVA: Chief Powhatan
• Wikipedia: Powhatan

John Rolfe

• Wikipedia: John Rolfe
• APVA: John Rolfe
• The History Channel: John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614

William Berkeley

• Wikipedia: William Berkeley
• Library of Virginia: Sir William Berkeley
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: Governor William Berkeley on Bacon's Rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon

• Wikipedia: Nathaniel Bacon
• Library of Congress: Nathaniel Bacon
• Colonial National Historical Park: A Brief History of Bacon's Castle

Jamestown Colony Pictures and Videos

• Google Images: Jamestown Colony
• Yahoo! Image Search: Jamestown Colony
• You Tube: Pocahontas: The Truth (Time 4:31) | Jamestown Settlement Discovered (Time 3:09)

Jamestown Colony Maps and Articles

• Virtual Jamestown: Original Maps
• National Geographic News: Jamestown Colony Well Yields Clues to Chesapeake's Health (2006) 
• CBS News: The Real Jamestown Colony (2007) 
• US News & World Report: The Birth of America (2007) 
• BBC News: Putting Jamestown into context (2007)
• History News Network: Jamestown at 400: Caught Between a Rock and a Slippery Slope (2007)

Jamestown Colony Books and Research

• Virginia Historical Society: Jamestown & Pocahontas Books
• American Journeys: Generall Historie of Virginia by Captain John Smith
• JSTOR: The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606-1609 
• Amazon.com: Jamestown Colony Books | The New World: Nightmare in Jamestown (DVD)
• History Cooperative: The Jamestown Project and Jamestown: The Buried Truth Book Reviews

Jamestown Colony Blogs and Message Boards

• Life in Small Bites: Happy 400th Birthday Jamestown!
• Polish Pioneers in America: Polish Pioneers in Jamestown Colony
• History of American Women: Tobacco Saves Jamestown 
• Horn Herald: What I Want to Remember about the Jamestown Quadricentennial
• Ball State University: Map of Jamestown Colony in GRMC

Jamestown Colony Commentary and Criticism

• Clemson University: Did Pocahontas save Captain John Smith?
• The Daily Collegian Online: Letter to the Editor: Anglicans, not Puritans Founded This Country (2002)
• Vanishing American: Jamestown: The Controversy (2007)
• Ethics Scoreboard: The Newport Statue Revisited: Where Responsibility Lies (2007)
• NPR: Jamestown's Early Days Were Brutish and Short (2007)