'PLL' star Shay Mitchell on her sexuality: 'I'm never going to label myself'. While the televised version of Emily Fields identifies as a lesbian, Pretty Little Liars actress Shay Mitchell isn't putting a label on her sexuality.
The first English colony in North America was the Colony of Roanoke, founded in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh, in present-day North Carolina, under the blessing of Queen Elizabeth I. This was an unsuccessful settlement, also called the Lost Colony..he first permanently settled European colony on continental North America was Veracruz, Mexico, founded in 1519 by the Spanish. St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the continental U.S., settled in 1565, also by the Spanish.
Jamestown: First English Colony in America. Explorers had been landing in America for some time before English settlers arrived in what is now Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.But it was in that spot on the James River that English colonization began and with it, the history of America. On This Site.xplorers had been landing in America for some time before English settlers arrived in what is now Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. But it was in that spot on the James River that English colonization began and with it, the history of America.