Jamestown

[ jeymz-toun ]

noun

1. a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607; restored 1957.
2. a city in SW New York.
3. a city in central North Dakota.
4. a seaport in and the capital of St. Helena, in the S Atlantic Ocean.

Jamestown

/ ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn /

noun

1. a ruined village in E Virginia, on Jamestown Island (a peninsula in the James River): the first permanent settlement by the English in America (1607); capital of Virginia (1607–98); abandoned in 1699

Jamestown

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America , founded in 1607 in Virginia . Jamestown was named for King James I of England . It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.

Example Sentences

Following his capture and death in 1646, shot in the back by a soldier at Jamestown, resistance was broken and the once great Powhatan chiefdom collapsed.

From Time

For history lovers, upstream from where the James River enters the bay is the site of the first permanent English settlement in the New World — Jamestown.

From Washington Post

Since 1608, when Jamestown colonists executed a spy for Spain, Virginia has put more people to death than anywhere else in what’s now the United States.

From Washington Post

After all, Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 1500s, well before the Jamestown settlers in 1607 or the Pilgrims in 1620.

From The Daily Beast

In 1611, cannabis was planted in Jamestown, Virginia, by order of the king.

From The Daily Beast

Three weeks later, they had settled Jamestown, an unused bit of land the Native Americans had deemed undesirable.

From The Daily Beast

Within the first nine months of life in Jamestown, the original 104 ship passengers had dwindled down to 38.

From The Daily Beast

The crop of men landing at Jamestown were soldiers by trade, and all were accustomed to leadership roles.

From The Daily Beast

Jamestown was for a long time the capital of the state, but has sunk into ruin, and is almost desolate.

From Project Gutenberg

Suppose you wish to find out what words will translate the date of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., 1607.

From Project Gutenberg

She was held as a hostage in Jamestown in an effort to restore peace between the Indians and the English.

From Project Gutenberg

Pocahontas had met and had become well acquainted with John Rolfe during her captivity at Jamestown.

From Project Gutenberg

Bacon and approximately four hundred planters marched to the State House at Jamestown and demanded his commission.

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