1607. They hoped to find gold there but life was very hard for them. There was very food, and many of them died little during the first winter. Then Pocahontas, the daughter of a Native American chief, became a friend of Captain John Smith and helped him and the other English people. She later a man called John Rolfe and went to England married with him. Luckily, tobacco saved the young colony. It was easy to grow tobacco in Virginia, and smoking was becoming very fashionable. People in the colony stopped looking for gold and began to grow tobacco, which they sold in Europe. Soon they started to bring people from Africa to work a their slaves and help them to grow more and more. John Smith travelled north in 1614 to the part of America that he called New England. When he returned to London he told people that it was a good place to live. In 1620, another group of 101 English men, women and children arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts. These people are called the "Pilgrims' or 'Pilgrim Fathers', and they had very strong ideas about religion. They did not want live in England to because they did not agree with the English church, so they sailed to America in a ship called the Mayflower. They