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).
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Jamestown was established/founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony in America.
They founded it on May 14, 1607.
Jamestown was established/founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English colony in America.
The first colony established in New England was the Plymouth Plantation, established at Plymouth near Cape Cod.
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No, Rhode Island was not a type of joint stock colony. It was considered a type of royal colony because it was settled under a royal charter.