Oh here we go, the usual glorification of the Pilgrims who came a dozen years after Jamestown and had the benefit of the bitter lessons learned there. Even on an internet thread hundreds of years later their prideful spawn will continue to try to denigrate Jamestown’s history of being the first colony. Typical.
The Starving Times are a well known part of early Jamestown history and I’m surprised to see this presented as if it were controversial. The land chosen for Jamestown turned out to be an inhospitable malarial swamp unsuitable for agriculture and only 60 of the 500 colonists survived the 1609-10 season.
Colonization is really hard and colonials were on their own without support. They might as well have been on the Moon. The Virginia Company investors back in London were slow to send the help that the colonials actually in Virginia were begging for.
But despite all the death and even cannibalism the Virginia colony survived, and they celebrated several Thanksgivings well before the pretentious glory hogs who stopped for a beer run up in Massachusetts began claiming everything of importance for themselves.
I’m going to guess that you didn’t cheer when the NE Patriots won the Superbowl.
Pffft...well, they can try to denigrate the Jamestown settlers in favor of the Pilgrims. It won’t wash.
The English colonists who settled Jamestown landed at Cape Henry, Virginia, where they erected a wooden cross, held a prayer service, and dedicated the continent to the service of Jesus Christ and the spreading of the Gospel.
Folks up north can look down their noses at them as a “very different type of people” and smear them as being unGodly, but facts bear out the truth.