Back to Colonial Home When Did the English Colonists Arrive in America?
  They traveled to America when the other Europeans came and started to live there. The English made their own colony in 1585 in what is now North Dakota. This colony didn't last long so they started another in what is North Carolina. English ships were bringing supplies to the English in America and when they got there, everyone was gone. That colony had been named the Lost Colony. In 1607, the English made another colony called Jamestown. This colony, however, lasted and in America these days, Jamestown still exists.