Getting to Know Jamestown Author:Burke Davis Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first English colony to survive in the American wilderness. Settlers who went to Jamestown faced many trials - due to lack of practical skills, to disease, to starvation, and to periodic Indian attacks. But colonists continued to cross the Atlantic, and in the process a new spirit was starting to form: "The... more »se men who had gone to Virginia were becoming fiercely independent, so that no power could control them; Virginians would dare anything where their rights were at stake." For ninety-two years Jamestown was the capital of Virginia and the locale of many events which would set precedents for the development of the South and of the nation as a whole. Burke Davis provides the young reader with an absorbing chronicle of Jamestown's history and its way of life in these early years.« less