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1585, Queen Elizabeth allowed Raleigh to send 100 men from England to Roanoke Island.
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1587, John White's family found out the men left in the fort had been killed.
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1606 English merchants started the virginia company of London.
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1607 A group of over 100 men to Virginia's James River (was not healthy to drink.)
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1609, Captain Smith returned to England after being ill and stopped visiting settlements.
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1612, A settler named John Rolfe learned from a local indian tribe that Tobacco grows well in Virginia
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1619 First Africans arrived in Jamestown.
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1619 Jamestown's first elected assembly was established.
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1620 Mayflower was being sailed with oceanus on it.
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1681 King Charles ll decided to give William Pen land in the New World that was south of New Jersey.
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