Jamestown
About Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi (4 km) southwest of present-day Williamsburg. It was established by the London Company as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607 O.S., and considered permanent, after a brief abandonment in 1610. It followed failed attempts, including the Roanoke Colony, established in 1585. Despite the dispatch of more supplies, only 60 of the original 214 settlers survived the 1609–1610 Starving Time. In mid-1610, the survivors abandoned Jamestown, though they returned after meeting a resupply convoy in the James River.
On the show — 5 mentions total
When we decided to go back and properly colonize America in the early 1700s, we brought a whole bunch of turkeys with us on our ships — the people who were going to colonize Jamestown brought a bunch of turkeys from Britain to America, saying, well, we better bring these turkeys so we can farm them in America, and they got off the boat at the other end and were like, this place is full of turkeys.
from No Such Thing As A Christmas Treenis, 2015-12-25 at 00:05:05 · read transcript
Other times Jamestown came up
They're not fully sure. His father, Stephen Hopkins, has an interesting story because he was part of the crew on the Mayflower, but he was also on a boat that tried to settle in the New World 10 years earlier in Jamestown, of Virginia. On his way there, the boat got wrecked off the coast of Bermuda, and he got stranded there with a bunch of other fellow passengers for several months.
No Such Thing As Playing Snake On A Plane, 2017-09-01 · listen
They're not they're not fully sure. His father, Stephen Hopkins, has an interesting story because he was part of the crew on the Mayflower. He was also on a boat that tried to settle in the New World ten years earlier in Jamestown in Virginia. On his way there, the boat got wrecked off the coast of Bermuda. He got stranded there with a bunch of other fellow passengers for several months.
180: No Such Thing As Playing Snake On A Plane, 2017-09-01 · listen
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