Dear Henry, Fish and I recently took a trip to Jamestown, and I’m excited to share what we discovered! Jamestown holds the distinction of being the first successful English colony in what would become the United States. The settlers arrived on May 14, 1607, after initially landing at Cape Henry (near present-day Virginia Beach ) on April 26 of the same year. The colony was established about 60 miles inland from the Chesapeake Bay along the James River. The location was chosen for strategic defense rather than agricultural promise—a decision that would haunt the settlers. The group mainly consisted of English nobles and their servants, ill-equipped for the harsh conditions and tensions they would face. It’s honestly remarkable that they survived at all. When the 104 settlers first landed in 1607, they were largely unprepared and came dangerously close to starvation. Although the Virginia Company had instructed them not to provoke the local native peoples, they quickly angered the Powhat...