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Jamestown was established/founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony in America.
No colony was founded in 1619, but in Jamestown on July 30th of 1619, the House of Burgesses (the first representative assembly in future-America) met in the town's church, and a month later a group of enslaved Africans arrived (which marked "the first step toward the enslavement of Africans within what was to be the American republic," according to my textbook).
There can be two answers to this question. The classical answer is Jamestown, as being the first successful colony established by the British, the other being the colony established in Roanoke (spelling?). This colony mysteriously disappeared for no reason at all, thus the reason for the two way answer.
The first English colony was established on Roanoke Island, in what is now North Carolina, in 1585. A second colony, the famous Lost Colony, was established two years later, but disappeared. A third colony, established in 1607 at Jamestown in Virginia, was more successful.
The first colony established in New England was the Plymouth Plantation, established at Plymouth near Cape Cod.