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Links about Jamestowne, the first colony

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The Jamestowne Society is composed of descendants of Jamestowne adventurers, founders and early settlers, ca. 1607-1700. We look back at Jamestowne to recognize what it means to us as Americans and what America’s first pioneers did to lay the foundation of our nation’s political and economic development.

First California Company
First California Company is one of 31 Companies of The Jamestowne Society. It is composed of members of the Society who are interested in associating with other members in California and participating in events and other activities that it sponsors.

  The Jamestowne colony was privately financed by the Virginia Company. 104 men and boys landed on the banks of Virginia's James River on May 14, 1607. There, over thirteen years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, they established the first permanent English settlement in America. They endured a struggle for existence against disease, drought, starvation and hostile native residents in which six out of seven perished. At that appalling cost, those newcomers left us some of our most profound and immutable national legacies.

The Jamestowne Society

The Jamestowne Society was incorporated in 1958 in Virginia and has grown to over 6,000 members with 25 Companies throughout the Nation. Two First California Company Meetings are held during the year. The Jamestowne Society chartered the First California Company in May 1999 in Burbank, California.

We are proud to join the nation in commemorating Jamestowne’s Quatercentenary and the role that our ancestors played in the beginning of our nation.


First California Company Jamestowne Society