[Pharmboy]

Thanks to SunkenCiv for leading me to this interesting find.

[Pharmboy]

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

[ScottinVA]

When I lived over in Williamsburg, Jamestown was 5 minutes from my home. It`s a fascinating place at which new finds are occurring all the time. Those planning trips to SE wound enjoy Jamestown Island and nearby Jamestown Settlement.

[muawiyah]

Always somebody complaining. TO THE STOCKS!!!!

[bgill]

I always enjoy info on the old homestead.

[Gaffer]

HEADLINE: “Obama Determines Jamestown Site a National Disaster Area!” FEMA is mobilizing to raze the area and eradicate the offending artifacts to preserve the Muslim Empirate.

[Tennessee Nana]

have they ever found the ruins of the more first Protestant church in Fort Caroline on the St Johns River in Florida ???

a refugee settlement for Huguenots fleeing from France in the 1560s ???

and then there was a fort built by the Huguenots called Charlesfort in South Carolina about the same time..

again there would have been a Protestant church there..

Both wiped out by the Spanish..

[tob2]

Not terribly far from me and worth a trip across the HRBT to visit. I can take my family tree and see if those names on it really were settlers there.

[Alex Murphy]

Researchers at Jamestown, Va., may have found the site where the first Protestant church in North America was built....

....Kelso, an American archaeologist specializing in Virginia’s colonial period, believes the ruins found are the church because of a “Record of construction in Spring of 1608, burials in the east or chancel end” and that it “matches dimensions recorded in 1610”....In addition to being the site of the oldest known Protestant church in the United States, the building would have also likely been the location for the wedding of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, a marriage that temporarily brought peace between settlers and Native Americans.

Ping for later

[bert]

-——the religious freedom they sought rarely included religious tolerance-——

Sort of like you know where....... I go there every day

[colorado tanker]

Merritt also noted the strong misconception commonly found with English settlers arriving to North America is that they were there for “religious freedom.”

The reporter may have mangled Merritt's statement, so I'll give him the benefit of a doubt.

The religious freedom motive varied dramatically from colony to colony. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and to some extent Maryland were settled by people seeking religious freedom. Jamestown was not. The settlers were there to make money, at first with gold and later with tobacco, but that is not to say they didn't practice the Christian faith. The settlers initially were adherents to the Church of England, which in the early seventeenth century was not about religious freedom, but religious conformity. The established religion in Jamestown was C of E. Eventually, adherents to other religions arrived in Virginia and in the eighteenth century there would be a movement to disestablish the C of E, long after Jamestown's heyday.

[Neidermeyer]

Pocahontas at 21 , painted in England.

[Captain Beyond]

GGG ping

[BuffaloJack]

Being that my family in America can trace our roots back to 1607 and the Jamestown Colony, my great great great great etc. uncle probably attended this church.
My cousin in Tennessee has possession of our family Bible that was brought over at that time.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I guess there is a reason for a fifth visit, after all.