Author: HUNT, PRISCILLA & F. RICHARD VRANIAN
Title: A Children's Color Book of Jamestown in Virginia
Description: Richmond VA: Dietz Press, 1997. Reprint. Paperback. ISBN: 0875170102. Illustrated by F. Richard Vranian. B&W Illustrations; 10 3/4 x 8; 48 pages; Oblong shaped soft cover New. Originally published in 1947, this copy is from 1993. Pages not numbered; 48 pages. Pages are clean and tight, not colored or marked. Sticker residue on back cover. Text on left [verso] page, pictures on right [recto] pages. English colonizers set sail with a charter from the London Company to establish a colony in the New World. The fleet consisted of the ships Susan Constant, Discovery, and Godspeed, all under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport..The expedition made landfall on1607 at a place which they named Cape Henry. Under orders to select a more secure location, they set about exploring what is now Hampton Roads and an outlet to the Chesapeake Bay which they named the James River in honor of King James I of England...On May 14, he selected a piece of land on a large peninsula some 40 miles (64 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean as a prime location for a fortified settlement. The river channel was a defensible strategic point due to a curve in the river, and it was close to the land, making it navigable and offering enough land for piers or wharves to be built in the future...John Rolfe, who carried with him a cache of untested new tobacco seeds from Bermuda, which had grown wild there after being planted by shipwrecked Spaniards years before. In 1614, Rolfe began to successfully harvest tobacco. Prosperous and wealthy, he married Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, bringing several years of peace between the English and natives.. As New .

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