Question: where did the english establish the first successful settlement in the western hemisphere
Answer: Virginia Company , chartered 1606 and became the Virginia Colony in 1624 London Company Jamestown , Virginia , founded 1607 ( briefly abandoned in 1610 ) Bermuda , islands located in the North Atlantic , first settled in 1609 by the London Virginia Company ; administration passed in 1615 to the Somers Isles Company , formed by the same shareholders .