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The colonization of Virginia was a mammoth undertaking even though launched by a daring and courageous people in an expanding age. The meager knowledge already accumulated was at hand to draw on and England was not without preparation to push for "its place in the sun." There was a growing navy, there was trained leadership, there was capital, there was organization and there were men ready to make the gamble for themselves and to the glory of God and for their country. It remained for the Virginia Company of London, under its charter of April 10, 1606, to found the first permanent English settlement in America | The First Seventeen Years Virginia by Charles E. Hatch 1 The First Seventeen Years Virginia by Charles E. Hatch The Project Gutenberg EBook of The First Seventeen Years Virginia 1607-1624 by Charles E. Hatch This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The First Seventeen Years Virginia 1607-1624 Author Charles E. Hatch Release Date December 28 2009 EBook 30780 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIRST SEVENTEEN YEARS Produced by Paul Dring Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http ---------------------------------------------- Transcribers note Extensive research has found no evidence of copyright renewal for this work. ------------------------------------------ The First Seventeen Years Virginia by Charles E. Hatch 2 Illustration Matoaka als Rebecka daughter to the mighty Prince Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughkomouck als Virginia converted and baptized in the Christian faith and wife to the worshipful Mr. John Rolff From Weddell A Memorial Volume of Virginia Historical Portraiture THE FIRST SEVENTEEN YEARS Virginia 1607-1624 CHARLES E. HATCH JR. The University Press of Virginia Charlottesville COPYRIGHT 1957 BY VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CORPORATION WILLIAMSBURG VIRGINIA Tenth printing 1991 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The University Press of Virginia Charlottesville CONTENTS Foreword The Start of Colonization 1 The Establishment of Jamestown 4 Summer and Fall 1607 5 The Three Supplies 1608-1610 6 A Critical Hour 10 Order and More Stable Ways 12 Tobacco 16 Yeardley and Argall 18 A New Approach 21 Yeardley and Wyatt 26 Virginia and the Dissolution 29 The Spread of Settlement--1607 to 1624 34 The First Seventeen Years Virginia by Charles E. Hatch