1607 May 14, 104 colonist disembark at Jamestown Island in Virginia by 1608 only 40 remain and even with 460 more colonists sent in the next 3 years only 90 end up surviving till 1610. Jamestown was founded on May,14 when the colonists arrived which is now a popular tourist spot. When the 104 colonists arrived it was already looking bad for them, there was not much fresh water, they knew they could be attacked by conquistadors from Spain and there were the Native Americans to worry about. Even with all these things that seem that they could stop their journey these risks were acceptable at that time in England and they were definitely not enough to kill 564 settlers. So the question is how did so many Colonists die in Early Jamestown's. Early …show more content…
According to document (C) Gentlemen were wealthy people who did do manual labor and that there were 47 gentlemen, 1 barber, one tailor, one drummer, only 12 labourers and more. All this information shows that there could have been 50 more or less people who couldn’t work out of only 110 which is a whopping 5/11 almost 50% of the settlers this shows that there was probably lack of food because almost half of the settlers couldn’t work. Also this information shows that there was lack of food and maybe lack of order because they might not have wanted to work for people when they themselves were on the brink of death and this is all because they didn’t prepare correctly by bringing the wrong people. Also document (E) Shows that the Native Americans killed about a whopping 127 of the settlers which was around one fifth of the settlers . All this information shows that they did not prepare for the Native Americans and thought that they were better than them since they already knew about the Native Americans before they came to America. This shows that they died because of lack of preparation because if they prepared for the Natives and brought gifts of the sorts to show that cared and tried to live by the rules instead of breaking all of them in a few months they would have probably saved at least one-hundred