They founded it on May 14, 1607.
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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).
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.
The first successful british colonly was Jamestown, VA!
Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the New World. It was founded in Virginia in 1607 by around 100 English colonists. The ships that they came across in were the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery.