Assertion: colony | /r/CapableOf | follow failed proprietary attempts
Facets:
value: in 1583
type: TEMPORAL
value: by sir humphrey gilbert
type: OTHER
value: at settlement on newfoundland
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The Colony of Virginia, chartered in 1606 and settled in 1607, was the first enduring English colony in North America, following failed proprietary attempts at settlement on Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583, and the subsequent further south Roanoke Island (modern eastern North Carolina) by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 1580s.