On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:31:40 -0600, Doug McDonald
wrote:
>Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>You miss the point ENTIRELY!!! The first colony in what became the
>>>13 original states (i.e. not Spanish Florida) WAS NOT MASSACHUSETTS.
>>>
>>>It was Virginia. It is just that the Massachusetts people are
>>>better propagandists .... the uninformed really do
>>>think the Mayflower was the first colonist ship. It was not,
>>>the first three (all at once) were the Godspeed, Susan Constant, and
>>>Sea Venture.
>>
>>
>> What point was it that I missed?
>
>That Massachusetts was NOT the first PERMANENT settlement
>in the 13 original states ... that was Virginia.
>
>
>> I acknowledged that there were earlier
>> attempts to colonize for profit. They failed. Many of the settlers
>> perished, and the rest packed up and returned to England. The Puritans
>> set up the first permanent settlement.
>
>
>That is simply and ABSOLUTELY WRONG. The first permanent settlement
>was in Viginia. (Though Jamestown itself was of course later
>abandoned, the area around it remained settled from the very first
>ship.) The settlers did NOT return to England. My ancestors, descendants
>of William Coxe, have lived in America since 1610 ... long before the
>Mayflower arrived. I personally do not have any ancestors that arrived
>in 1707, but other so.
>
>Learn some history!
>Doug McDonald
What about the Raonoke Colonies of the late 1500's Wouldn't they be
the first?
They were short lived but so was Jamestown |