[DOC] [TLE] Historical Rivalry : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History ... [PAR] Virginia's Jamestown was the continent's first permanent English settlement. So 
how is that Massachusetts's Plymouth has precedence in the minds of so many 
Americans? ... dusty New Mexico, it has much less notice and only regional 
affection. ... which killed some five hundred Virginians, was more than enough to 
destroy... [DOC] [TLE] Jamestown Questions and answers - History Is Fun [PAR] Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America. ... By 
1560 English and Spanish explorers probably had visited the area also. About 
1570 ... The entire trip was more than 6,000 miles. ... disappeared some 17 years 
earlier. Why did ... Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay and made maps of the 
area. [DOC] [TLE] Williamsburg, Virginia - Wikipedia [PAR] Williamsburg is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 
census, the ... By the 1630s, English settlements had grown to dominate the 
lower (eastern) ... than Jamestown, which was humid and plagued with 
mosquitoes. ... of then-Governor Thomas Jefferson, who feared Williamsburg's 
location made it... [DOC] [TLE] The complete works of Captain John Smith [vol. 1] - Virtual Jamestown [PAR] Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) ... of John 
Smith's coat of arms made for the editor from the copy in the College of Arms, 
London ..... in standard English dictionaries, and a few obscure foreign words 
and phrases. ...... that the Indians were far less tractable than early reports had 
intimated and... [DOC] [TLE] Text Only--Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary [PAR] The heart of English settlement in the colonial period was along the Atlantic 
seaboard. ... Initially Europeans had attempted to enslave the Native Americans, 
but a ...... 1699, the colonists moved the capital of Virginia a few miles away to 
Williamsburg. ... After the destruction caused by the 1781 siege, fewer than 70 
buildings... [DOC] [TLE] The American Civil War (1860-1865) - The Latin Library [PAR] As for the number of slaves owned by each master, 88% held fewer than ...... 
Unlike the north where manufacturers benefited from protection, the south had 
few ... rapid decline in British exports to the United States in the early summer of 
1861. ...... the Confederates on Wilson's Creek about 12 miles southwest of 
Springfield. [DOC] [TLE] Project Gutenberg's Etext of The Life of Francis Marion by Simms ... [PAR] Unprovided with the means of warfare, no less than of comfort -- wanting equally 
in ... the year 1685, within twenty years after the first British settlement of the 
province. ..... The Santee settlement, though but forty miles distant from 
Charleston, was a ...... Tarleton had been apprised of the gatherings at 
Williamsburg, and, at the... [DOC] [TLE] The American Pageant 13e.pdf - AP United States History with Mrs ... [PAR] Jun 20, 2013 ... 1650 51 Andros's Dominion of New England 54 Early Settlements in the ..... More 
important still, after 1763 a financially overstretched British government made the 
.... peoples of the Southwest did sustain some large settlements after ..... Mexico 
and in less than two centuries had spread as far as Canada. [DOC] [TLE] Peninsula Hazard Mitigation Plan 2011 Update - City of Williamsburg [PAR] Jun 3, 2011 ... English settlement in North America was established in 1607 at ... Shipyard is 
located in Portsmouth a few miles up the Elizabeth River. ... For this plan update, 
the Peninsula is made up of the City of .... The area now occupied by Hampton 
was first noted by ... Fewer than six buildings remained intact. [DOC] [TLE] John Sergeant Wise, 1846-1913. The End of an Era [PAR] The two boys studied him as if he had been some great actor. .... Thus came 
about the first settlement of the white man upon the eastern shore peninsula ... 
thirty miles of the coast and then turns abruptly eastward, made, as it still makes, 
..... of them are descendants of the earliest English settlers, and that there has 
been less... [DOC] [TLE] Explorers and Settlers: Historic

Question: Williamsburg was made defensible & had fewer mosquitos than this early English settlement a few miles to the SW
Answer: Jamestown