English+Settlers





There were two problems that caused many of the settlers to die.
 * Englishment made up the seven-man council that govern the colonists:
 * Captain Christopher Newport, Edward Maria Wingfield, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, Captain John Ratcliffe, Captain John Martin, Captain George Kendall, and John Smith
 * On December 1607, the first British settlers arrived in Jamestown in the hope of finding natural resources.
 * First, some of the colonists were English noblemen with no experience either in the military or in manual labor.
 * The second problem the colonists faced occurred because the land was swampy, there were a lot of mosquitoes, and the water was undrinkable.