On the December of 1606, 105 English gentlemen set off to the New World. When they reached the New World on April 26, 1607 (their journey was almost four months long), they had to find a place to settle. They stopped at Cape Henry and claimed that land, but they did not want to start a colony there. They probably did not want to start a colony there because it was too open, too exposed, and too close to sea. For example, if a storm or a massive wave came, it could easily wiped the settlers and the colony out. So, the colonist sailed up the James River to Cape Comfort. But, they did not want to start colony there either. Then they sailed back to Cape Henry, Virginia. Then they sailed to Kecoughtan and visited Native Americans. After visiting them, they did not go back to Cape Henry. But instead, sailed to Paspine and visited more Native Americans. After visiting those Native Americans, they sailed to Tophana and visited more Native Americans. And then visited more Native Americans in Appamatica. Why do you think they visited all those Native Americans?
After visiting all those Native Americans they started sailing down to Archer Hope (College Creek), to find a place to settle. But then thought it was a bad place to live. They thought it was a bad place probably because, there was an Native American village already there and because that location was wetland and swampy. Finally in May 13, 1606 they reached Jamestown and decided that Jamestown was a good place to settle. They thought that Jamestown was not swampy but they were wrong.
Jamestown was in a similar location as Roanoke it was still in the wetlands and Roanoke was south east from Jamestown. Jamestown is located in modern day Virginia. The settlers made the same mistake as Roanoke, they settled in an area that was very swampy. Swampy places gives people diseases because it is a place where there are a lot of mosquitoes which carry a lot of sicknesses. Also, the water that the settlers drink is very dirty so it also held a lot of diseases.
by Yossuf and Shrishti