List of Jamestown colonists

14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River.

[1][2] The trips aboard the ships Susan Constant, Discovery, and the Godspeed, and the settlement itself, were sponsored by the London Company, whose "adventurers" (investors) hoped to make a profit from the resources of the New World.

The settlers suffered terrible hardships in its early years, including sickness, starvation, and native attacks.

[51][52] Survivors from Bermuda (137-142 passengers and crew)[80] salvaged the Sea Venture, and built two ships: Deliverance and Patience.

Patience and Deliverance (castaways from Bermuda and Sea Venture) At the same time, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr and Samuel Argall (after hearing of John Smith's adventures), led a humanitarian mission from England with 150 men (including a doctor, some Frenchmen, a Swiss miner[81]) and supplies.

[82] Aboard the Hercules (of Rye), Blessinge (of Plymouth, England), and De La Warr[note 6] ships, they intercepted the weary colonists in Chesapeake Bay departing Virginia and compelled them to return to Jamestown with the new provisions and passengers.

The Starr, the Elizabeth, and Prosperous (with Vice Admiral Christopher Newport) also carried horses, poultry, goats, and rabbits.