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Queen Elizabeth let Walter Raleigh take 100+ men to Roanoke island to set up a fort. -
John White arrived at the fort with more men.
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After leaving Roanoke in Previous years J White and W Raleigh returned to find the fort deserted. -
100+ men arrived at the James River to set up a fort. -
John Smith returns to England from the James River. -
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe in England. -
Oceanus was born on the Mayflower, a ship filled with pilgrims and puritans! -
The first successful harvest of the English settlement of Plymouth. -
W Penn was given land in the new world by Charles II as he owed Penn's dead father after a loan -
Delaware was the eighth colony and the first state.