<P> Due to the aristocratic backgrounds of many of the new colonists , a historic drought and the communal nature of their work load , progress through the first few years was inconsistent at best . By 1613 , six years after Jamestown 's founding , the organizers and shareholders of the Virginia Company were desperate to increase the efficiency and profitability of the struggling colony . Without stockholder consent the Governor , Sir Thomas Dale , assigned 3 - acre ( 12,000 m ) plots to its `` ancient planters '' and smaller plots to the `` settlement 's '' later arrivals . Measurable economic progress was made , and the settlers began expanding their planting to land belonging to local native tribes . That this turnaround coincided with the end of a drought that had begun the year before the English settlers ' arrival probably indicates multiple factors were involved besides the colonists ' ineptitude . </P>
<P> Due to the aristocratic backgrounds of many of the new colonists , a historic drought and the communal nature of their work load , progress through the first few years was inconsistent at best . By 1613 , six years after Jamestown 's founding , the organizers and shareholders of the Virginia Company were desperate to increase the efficiency and profitability of the struggling colony . Without stockholder consent the Governor , Sir Thomas Dale , assigned 3 - acre ( 12,000 m ) plots to its `` ancient planters '' and smaller plots to the `` settlement 's '' later arrivals . Measurable economic progress was made , and the settlers began expanding their planting to land belonging to local native tribes . That this turnaround coincided with the end of a drought that had begun the year before the English settlers ' arrival probably indicates multiple factors were involved besides the colonists ' ineptitude . </P>
who was the person that led the turnaround at the jamestown colony
who was the person that led the turnaround at the jamestown colony
Sir Thomas Dale
Sir Thomas Dale