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  Bartholomew Gosnold is the first Englishmen to land on the coast of New England and explore Cape Cod.
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  Thomas West was made Governor of Virginia
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  Captain John Smith meets the Powhattan princess Pocahontas.
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  Walter Raleigh made a failing English colony called on Roanoke Island.
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  105 settlers set sail to America on three ships.
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  Virginia Company of London founded the Joint Stock Compony.
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  Settlers Build James Town.
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  The Mayflower arrives at Plymouth Rock and starts up a Colony made up of Separatists and Pilgrims!
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  The people at Plymouth Rock met there first Native America!
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  Henry Hudson commissions the Dutch East India Company.