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A question on the effect of an early Jamestown/Virginia collapse (english settlement destroyed with the loss of all hands) on plans, timing & routes of Pilgrims, Puritans and Calverts (& Dutch, Swedes, French)?

With a total Jamestown & Virginia collapse in the first 15 years, are the Pilgrim Fathers still going to migrate at the same time as OTL (1620) and go to the same place as OTL (Cape Cod), and are the Puritan fleets of 1628 onward still going to go to Massachusetts Bay? For the Chesapeake, will the first English colony be Maryland in 1634? Or would would see other attempts, perhaps successful ones, in the territory or present-day Virginia before 1620.

Particularly with the Pilgrims, I wonder if failure of prior settlements in the Chesapeake region will make it more likely for them to go "hey, there's no other englishmen in Chesapeake and James River areas, so it's a blank slate for us" or if it will reinforce the idea of, "hey, when we go to America, let's make sure its a little further north and away from the areas of previous failures" thus landing them in Cape Cod or at least some point from Manhattan island northward.
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