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The reason the colonists chose to found a settlement in Virginia was because of the land and its resources. The first settlement in Virginia was the Jamestown settlement.

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"They" who? And what is Virgina? Are you inquiring about the female organ, a record company with its own airline, or a state in the eastern US?

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Virginia was established as a colony to gain wealth and to convert the natives to Christianity.

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some people did not want to belong to the Church of England

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people failed to settle in Roanoke island, though people did not give up to settle on the "new world" so, people wanted to settle in Virginia.

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To find gold.

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