The first permanent English colony in the New World was at:

The first permanent English colony in the New World was at Virginia, in 1607.

The foundation of Jamestown was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London.

Settlers tried to generate profits venturing themselves in glassmaking, wood production, pitch and tar and potash manufacture and, later and more successfully, tobacco as a cash crop.

The first permanent English colony in the New World was at Jamestown in Virginia in 1607.

The colony was sponsored by a group of investors, the Virginia Company of London. They aimed to profit from the venture. They also upheld English national goals of counterbalancing the expansion of other European nations abroad, in the search of a northwest passage to the Orient, and turning the Virginia Indians into the Anglican religion.