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First settlers in 1620-30 roughly that helped establish the colonies of US?
That's impressive actually because that's just shortly after Shakespeare.
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- Anonymous1 week ago
There were people here for thousands of years before that.
- WilliamLv 71 week ago
You're off by a few years.
The London Company sent out its first expedition to begin colonizing Virginia on December 20, 1606. The English Establish a foothold at Jamestown, 1606-1610. The first colonists arrived in Chesapeake Bay from England in April 1607.
Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by a Spanish soldier named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in St. Augustine, Florida.