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AMERICAN COLORTYPE co., N Y.
COPYRIGHT 1907 BY JAMESTOWN A. & V. co.
COLONISTS LEAVING ENGLAND FOR JAMESTOWN.
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LORS JAMESTOWN Cx.co
1607-JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION-1907
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR
2091
1907
UNITED STATES,
CUBA.CANADA
AND MEXICO
FOREIGN TWO
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OFFICIAL SEAL
PUBLISHED BY THE CONCESSIONAIRE, THE JAMESTOWN AMUSEMENT & VENDING CO., INC., NORFOLK, VA.
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COLONISTS LEAVING ENGLAND FOR
JAMES TOWN. Exaggerated reports and wild tales of
the early voyagers to Virginia, that gold and silver were
so plentiful, cooking utensils were made of them and that
native children had been seen playing in the unexplored
forests with strings of diamonds and pearls around their
necks, created great excitement amongst the English
people, who longed for this wealth. Leading merchants
of London organized a great trading company to make
settlements in Virginia and in 1606 King James I. grant-
ed a charter to the London Company for that purpose.
They at once prepared to send out a colony, and on
December 19th, 1606, 105 men listed as gentlemen, car-
penters and laborers (but 12 were laborers), set sail down
the Thames in the 'Susan Constant" of 100 tons, the
“Godspeed" of 40 tons and the “Discovery" of 20 tons, or
as some authorities state, the “Sarah Constant," "Good-
speed” and “Discovery," in command of Admiral
Christopher Newport. After a very long, tempestuous
and eventful voyage they passed through the Virginia
Capes late in April, 1607, touched at Cape Henry, Point
Comfort, Hampton and other points, and finally landed
and settled at Jamestown, May 13, 1607. (See cards
Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 8.)
