When was Williamsburg founded?

Question

When was Williamsburg founded?

Answer 1

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WILLIAMSBURG

Williamsburg was founded as the capital of the Virginia Colony in 1699.

The original capital, Jamestown was the first permanent English-speaking settlement in the New World founded in 1607.

Colonial leaders petitioned the Virginia Assembly to relocate the capital from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, five miles inland between the James and the York Rivers. The new city was renamed Williamsburg in honor of England's reigning monarch, King William III. Williamsburg celebrated its 300 th Anniversary in 1999.

Answer 2

Founded in 1633 as Middle Plantation

Williamsburg gained its new name when it became the capital of the English colony of Virginia in 1699.

Answer 3

Williamsburg, Virginia was founded around the 1630's.

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