Don Shave's Ancestral Family Tree
The Colonial Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America (North America)
The Colony of Virginia in Colonial America was created from the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America which was located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia Established on Sunday, May 14, 1607, Jamestown Colony gave England its 1st foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century Many of the people who had settled in the New World came to escape religious persecution; the Pilgrims, founders of Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived in 1620. In both Virginia and Massachusetts, the colonists flourished with some assistance from Native Americans. New World grains (such as corn) kept the colonists from starving while, in Virginia, tobacco provided a valuable cash crop The first English plantations along the south shore (within the present-day Isle of Wight) were established by Puritan colonists, beginning with that of Christopher Lawne in May 1618. Several members of the Puritan Bennett family also settled there, including Richard Bennett. He led the Puritans to neighboring Nansemond in 1635, and later was appointed as governor of the Virginia Colony
