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English established Jamestown at VA
Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558
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3. The English return a second time to Virginia and establish themselves: …On the part of the English there was no event or movement until the year 1606, when Christopher Newport was sent over by Bartholomew Gosnold, who, in company with John Smith and other merchants of London, had supplied him with everything necessary. After several storms which caused him incredible hardships he reached Virginia. Arriving at Cape Henry or Santa Maria, he landed against the wishes of the Indians, who compelled him to fortify quickly, in order to defend himself from their furious attack. Finally, entering Powhatan River, now called the James, he founded on the spot that seemed best to him the city of this name, in honor of James I, the reigning monarch. [Bolton note: In the Indian attack there two men were badly wounded (Fiske, Old Virginia and her Neighbors, I, 56-95).
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