Transplantations and Borderlands The beginning colonization of America was a ruff time and tested the first settler’s strength. There was famine, sickness and hostility with the surrounding Indians. But that didn’t stop the determination to expand into a new land. The first settlers’ founded Jamestown in 1607. They thought they had chosen a rightful place but they were wrong. Many of the people died of disease. Other ships came to drop off supplies and pick up sick people but that wouldn’t keep the town stable. Once they had given up on Jamestown and were on the way home a passing ship came to save them and convinced then to return. Lord De La Warr was to be appointed at the first governor of Jamestown. He very harshly disciplined the colony and that didn’t work. When they saw that their plan wasn’t working as well as they wanted it to they began to permit private ownership of land in returns to grain in its storehouses. This made Virginia expand along with the discovery of tobacco. Tobacco wasn’t producing enough profit for the Virginia Company so in 1618, it launched a last great campaign to attract settlers and make the colony profitable called the Headright System. This system consisted of fifty-acre grants of land that new settlers could acquire. Now the Virginia Company economy and population were both increasing and needed to expand but there were problems with the surrounding Indians. In 1642, King Charles
