Actually the first English colony was Roanoke.
Jamestown was the first permanent settlement.
Yes, but permanent is what counts.
I was so annoyed about a Thanksgiving program that played in the Milwaukee area this week that I turned it off and deleted both halfs. Obviously it was produced by MA folks and they dismissed Jamestowne as a “failed” colony even though that was the original destination of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower. They put into shore at Plymouth rock only because they ran out of beer.
That was probably a good choice because Jamestowne was beset with mosquitoes and malaria which hindered their development until they moved inland to the Williamsburg area.