Nevis, despite the Spanish claim on the…

Nevis, despite the Spanish claim on the island, continues to be a popular stopover point for English and Dutch ships on their way to the North American continent.

Captain Bartholomew Gilbert of Plymouth had visited the island in 1603, spending two weeks to cut twenty tons of lignum vitae wood, then sailing on to Virginia to seek out survivors of the Roanoke settlement in what is now North Carolina.

Captain John Smith visits Nevis also on his way to Virginia in 1607.

This is the voyage that founds the Jamestown Settlement, the first permanent English settlement in the New World.