Contact 
Calendars
Careers
Engage 
District
ENGLISH
King James I – 1606 signing the first charter
- https://www.historyisfun.org/sites/jamestown-chronicles/james_more.html
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/virginia-company/
Christopher Newport – 1607 coming over on the Susan Constant
- https://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Life-at-Jamestown.pdf
- https://www.captainchristophernewport.com/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Newport
Thomas Savage – 1608 came to Jamestown 8 months after the first ships, explored with John Smith and met Powhatan.
- https://www.historyisfun.org/sites/jamestown-chronicles/tom_more.html
- https://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Life-at-Jamestown.pdf
John Smith – 1608 leader of Jamestown
- https://www.historyisfun.org/jamestown-settlement/history-jamestown/
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/pocahontas/john-smith/
- https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/life-of-john-smith.htm
Ann Burras – 1608 first English woman coming to Jamestown
George Percy – 1609 Starving Time
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/the-starving-time/
- https://www.ushistory.org/us/2c.asp
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-vmHFD-9g
Jane – 1610 Starving Time
- https://historicjamestowne.org/archaeology/jane/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO-vmHFD-9g
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/starving-settlers-in-jamestown-colony-resorted-to-cannibalism-46000815/?no-ist
John Rolfe – 1611 After he coming on the Sea Venture, almost abandoning Jamestown with Gates, and then come back at the insistence of Lord Delaware to establish the first English settlement in America.
- https://www.historyisfun.org/video/the-story-of-the-sea-venture/
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/pocahontas/john-rolfe/
Governor Yeardley – First Governor of House of Burgesses- after the signing a the charter establishing the House of Burgesses and establishing the first representative government.
- https://www.historyisfun.org/sites/jamestown-chronicles/james_more.html
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-general-assembly/
- https://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp
Colonial Clothing
- https://www.leaf.tv/articles/facts-on-clothes-in-jamestown-virginia-during-colonial-times/
- https://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/womens_clothing.php
POWHATANS
A Powhatan in 1606 living in the Powhatan village
- https://www.historyisfun.org/jamestown-settlement/powhatan-village/
- https://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Life-at-Jamestown.pdf
Pocahontas with John Smith at the Powhatan Village when he was taken captive.
- https://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Pocahontas-the-Powhatans.pdf
- https://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Werowocomoco_essay.pdf
- https://www.virtualjamestown.org/Powhat1.html
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/pocahontas/
Powhatan – 1613 after his daughter had been captured by Captain Argyll and held for ransom.
- https://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Pocahontas-the-Powhatans.pdf
- https://www.ushistory.org/us/2e.asp
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/chief-powhatan/
Tomocomo – 1616 visited London with Pocahontas
Opecancanaugh – 1622 leader of a Powhatan rebellion after the Peace of Pocahontas had ended.
- https://www.historyisfun.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Pocahontas-the-Powhatans.pdf
- https://www.ushistory.org/us/2e.asp
AFRICANS
Queen Nzinga – 1600
- https://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/anna-nzinga-mbande-fearless-africa-queen/
- https://biography.yourdictionary.com/anna-nzinga
- https://www.our-africa.org/angola/history-politics
An African in Angola – 1606
Angela – 1619 a slave who came on the boat, Treasurer, to Virginia.
- https://www.historyisfun.org/sites/jamestown-chronicles/angela_more.html
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/
- https://www.historyisfun.org/pdf/From-Africa-to-Virginia/Africa_to_Virginia.pdf
Anthony Johnson – 1621 a slave at Jamestown
- https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/the-royal-african-company-supplying-slaves-to-jamestown.htm
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p265.html
- https://www.historyisfun.org/pdf/Curriculum-Materials/AngolanConnection.pdf
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090201097.html
- https://newsone.com/2031761/african-slaves-jamestown/
- https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/
- https://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1619.html
John Punch – 1640 first slave for life-runaway
Disclaimer: These pages contain links to one or more websites that are outside of the Arlington Public School network. APS does not control the content or relevancy of these links.