Records from the early years of the settlement show that at least four surgeons practiced at disease-plagued Jamestown between 1607 and 1610. Evidence also shows that London physician John Woodall ...

Captain Christopher Newport leads three ships carrying 105 male settlers across the Atlantic. In May, they establish Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Paspahegh ...

DNA analysis of two skeletons from unmarked graves in a Jamestown church uncovered both men were related to Thomas West, the colony’s first governor, a study found.

Celebrating the New World's First Permanent English Settlement. ... In 1957 scientists determined that the remains of the historic fort built in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia, no longer existed.

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, has unearthed a ...

The tombstone, from 1627, was erected at the Jamestown settlement following the death of Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of Virginia.

The Settlement of Jamestown. Share full article. Jan. 19, 1901. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 19, 1901, Section T, Page 13 Buy Reprints.

Sent from England to resupply Jamestown, the Sea Venture shipwrecked more than 600 nautical miles away from the colony. Guilbert Gates Jagged rocks and treacherous reefs near Bermuda’s coast ...

DNA analysis of two skeletons from unmarked graves in a Jamestown church uncovered both men were related to Thomas West, the colony’s first governor, a study found.

The settlement was established in 1612, a mere five years after the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia and eight ...