More than half of the first settlers of this American colony died of disease or starvation during the 1607-08 winter
Upon 
arrival, the group then proceeded in their ships into the Chesapeake... [DOC] [TLE] APUSH Chapter 3: Settlement, Alliances, and Resistance, 1607 ... [PAR] (the winter of 1607-08) ... Waterborne disease and starvation ... During the winter 
of 1620-21, about half the community died from, cold, and malnutrition.