What if Jamestown had been a complete failure with all of the colonists dying, how would that have affected the colonization of the New World?
What if Jamestown had been a complete failure with all of the colonists dying, how would that have affected the colonization of the New World?
It depends. When does this happen? It might make no difference, or it might make all the difference? Would this happen after John Smith's departure from the Virginia Colony? Is he among the dead?
It won't stop the English from colonization but the Chesapeake area would likely be ignored as a possible place to establish a colony for maybe five-ten years, maybe more.
The English would try again, just somewhere else somewhere in the modern Mid-Atlantic states. After all, Jamestown was the third or fourth recorded attempt to settle in America by the English. But it certainly wouldn't be the Virginia Company of London, I'll tell you that much.
How about the Malaria Outbreak of 1607 manages to kill a majority of the settlers, causing the abandonment of the settlement.
I suppose if the settlement is abandoned, the remaining survivors are probably taken as prisoners of war by the Powhatan. The area is likely to not going to be colonized again by the English. The area is pretty worthless and this is before the discovery of growing tobacco.
They may well try again in New England or in the OTL New York area.![]()
Didn't England revoke the company charter after the Virginia Company proved incompetent and the colonists were dying en masse, and nationalize the whole thing, after which point it really took off?
Well regardless, that doesn't happen ITTL.
Didn't England revoke the company charter after the Virginia Company proved incompetent and the colonists were dying en masse, and nationalize the whole thing, after which point it really took off?
Nope. Not at all. Not until 1614.
Well MY mistake.![]()
A Puritan New York would be awesome. Especially if it was called Avalon.