Jamestown

(LoC) - On May 14, 1607, English settlers arriving under the authority of the Virginia Company of London chartered by King James I established the first permanent British settlement in North America at a place they named Jamestown, Virginia.
"We landed all our men," George Percy wrote in his account of the event, "which were set to worke about [i.e., on] the fortification, and others some to watch and ward as it was convenient." Continued