“In 1607, a group of merchants established England’s first permanent colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia” (Nash, p. 52). Everyone who settled along the Atlantic seaboard had different reasons and faced many obstacles as well. They suffered from disease, native tribes, and settlement of the new world. The first settlement was Jamestown. Their goals were to prosper in wealth and in their future. The Virginia Company of London sold stocks and traded with people overseas. However, disease hurt their prosperity and they ended up with no profit. A group of indentured servants were used in exchange for free passage to America because of tobacco. The causes of malarial fever, dysentery, and malnutrition killed many settlers, as well as servants.