First Ohio Company The Jamestowne Society
Did Pocahontas marry John Smith?
The Society was organized in 1936 and has now grown to over 5000 members.
First Ohio Company was chartered in 2005 with 19 chartering members. 
For further information on Jamestowne our members recommend these books:
A Land as God Made It by James Horn
Jamestown The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso
Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough Three Indian lives changed by Jamestown by Helen C. Rountree
and these websites:
http://www.nps.gov/colo/
http://www.apva.org/jr.html
http://www.nps.gov/archive/colo/Jthanout/JtvsPly.html
In May 1607, a group of 104 men travelling on 3 ships, arrived in the Chesapeake Bay and chose a peninsula for their settlement.
They named it Jamestowne after King James I of England.
The majority of the first settlers perished through famine or warfare with Native Americans, but the colony was never abandoned.
Through her marriage to settler John Rolfe, Pocahontas ensured a period of peace and growth for the settlement. Her father the powerful paramount chief Powhatan had been justifiably distrustful of the English settlers and had his soldiers attack the settlement several times.
The first representative assembly in North America was in 1619 on Jamestowne Island. Elected representatives from surrounding plantations and towns arrived at the Jamestowne Church for a meeting of the House of Burgesses. This was the beginning of representative government in the colonies which became the United States of America.
