It was difficult to survive at first in the colony of Jamestown. The majority of the first Europeans to migrate were ill suited for this new environment since most were either townsmen unfamiliar with farming or the “gentleman adventurers” that scorned manual labor. The settlers expected to find gold, friendly Indians and an easy going life but, instead they found disease, drought, starvation, dissension and death. They couldn’t depend on supplies from England and ultimately the Indians had to teach them to grow corn in order to survive and they also helped by trading goods with them. In 1609 the Virginia Company sent more colonists to Jamestown, because of the sudden surge of new settlers the colonists experienced more hardship. In the starving
