The Chesapeake Colonies
These links will provide you with some additional information about the development of the the Chesapeake colonies during the 17th century.
Chesapeake Bay - Economy - The Mariners' Museum
The economy of the Chesapeake Bay region has always been tied to the accessibility of convenient transportation for goods and people. The region's fertile soil, plentiful supplies of fresh water, and
Jamestown Interpretive Essays - Who Built Virginia?
Ekirch, A. Roger. Bound for America: The Transportation of Bound Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Jamestown Interpretive Essays - Leaving England: The Social Background of Indentured Serva
(Images From Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake by James Horn. Copyright © 1994 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publi
NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
The English failed in their first attempt to establish a colony in 1585 on Roanoke Island, one of the barrier islands off what would become North Carolina. They left little more t
New England vs. Chesapeake
Descended largely from families that arrived during the 1630s, New England was a relatively stable society settled in compact towns and villages. It never developed any staple crop for export of any