Mr. Speaker. October 1. 1973. marked the 365th anniversary of the arrival of the first Polish immigrants to America. Michal Lowicki. Zbigniew Stefanski. Jur Mata. Jan Bogdan. Karol Zrenica. and Stanislaw Sadowski landed at Jamestown. Va. in 160812 years before the Mayflower anchored at Plymouth Rockand helped to make it the first permanent English colony in the New World. Jamestownfounded in 1607stood on the verge of collapse when the Poles arrived. Plagued by "gentlemen adventurers" more interested in searching for gold than in making a home. the colony had been caught unprepared for the first winters cruelties. Capt. John Smith had to beseech the Virginia Co. to "send but 30 carpenters. blacksmiths. and masons rather than a thousand such as we have here." Within 3 weeks of their arrival. the Poles built and were operating a glass factory. the first factory in the English colonies in America.
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