Early Jamestown Settlers

In 1606 144 men (no women) were sent to North America to acquire gold, silver and Raw goods working for the Virginia Company still under the rule of King James I. These men became known as the Virginians.Crossing the Atlantic in the year 1607 and landing in the Chesapeake Bay they traveled up a river they later named the James and staked claim to land, Jamestown, loosing over 40 men. Then after the first winter and various other problems their numbers were down to 38.The Virginians of the second charter migrated to the Jamestown settlement in 1609 to help solve the issues that the men of the first charter went through. They were meant to become a more independent settlement. “Those who were willing to migrate to Virginia and to work and work for the company for seven years would also earn a share in the ownership of the enterprise,…” (The Virginia Company Charter, 70). Over 600 new settlers came and after the first winter there were only 60 people in the entire …show more content…
They had pulled apart from Henry XIII and the Church of England, who had recently pulled away from the Catholic Church, because of how corrupt Henry was. They wanted everyone to believe the way they did, they wished to purify people, “Seeing that we daily pray for the conversion of the heathens,we must consider whether there be some ordinary means and course for us to take to convert them…To us they cannot come our land is full; to them, we may go, their land is empty.” (The Puritan Logic of Migration, 5). When the Puritans were still on the Mayflower the came up with a self governing document, The Mayflower Compact, and once they were off the ship they settled in New England. The puritans ran a strict community, people were educated including women, and everybody knew their place if a person questioned the way things were ran they would go through various punishments including