First Seventeen Years
Subtitle: Virginia, 1607-1624 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical B)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: December 1979
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780813901305
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); History - U.S.; Virginia; USA; United States - State & Local - General; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; History
First sentence: On May 13, 1607, three small English ships approached Jamestown Island in Virginia: the Susan Constant of 100 tons, commanded by Captain Christopher Newport and carrying seventy-one persons; the Godspeed of forty tons, commanded by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold and carrying fifty-two persons; and the Discovery, a pinnace of twenty tons, under Captain John Ratcliffe with twenty-one persons.