"It's all very exciting to imagine that," Speth said, standing on the dock at Founders Pier as the crew worked to prepare the vessel for a week-long celebration. Alexandria is one of six port cities the ship will visit this summer during a promotional tour to kick off a year-long commemoration of the 1607 Jamestown settlement.
There will also be stops in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Newport, R.I., and Boston. Numerous other celebrations are planned throughout the year, and a Web site devoted to teaching young students about the ship's first journey offers free lesson plans to educators.
The Godspeed -- a re-creation of one of the three ships that carried the country's first permanent English-speaking colonists from England to the commonwealth, where they landed May 14, 1607 -- replaces a replica built in the 1980s. It will also serve as an exhibit at Jamestown Settlement, a living-history museum of 17th-century Virginia. Washpost
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1607 - Jamestown.
1620 - Plymouth
1630 - Massachusetts Bay colony
Get it?
1607 is 13 years before 1620.
1607 is 23 years before 1630.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jamestown_Settlement_(1607%E2%80%931699)
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Pilgrims?
In 1622, the Jamestown colony had a population of around 1200. In that year "strategic warning" failed yet again and an unexpected Indian attack on outlying farms and settlements killed 400. 20 women were carried away into slavery (Indian Slavery).
Yes. It is true. People in the Virginia Colony were just trying to make a living in a New World. They were not ideologically motivated exclusivist religious fanatics. Deplorable..
Pat Lang
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601936.html
