Polish connection

[macwilkin]

I like a few others on this board are of mixed Scotish/Polish ancestery

I know that Jamestown was established in 1607
and I also know that the first Poles came there in 1608 or1609

I was wondering what was the connection between England and Poland
to bring Poles to an English colony or were the Poles already in England at the time.
I understand that James I had a tie to Poland

can anyone on this board help explain this

I believe the Poles were brought to Virginia by the Va. Company of a London because of their skills as lumbermen. This is the same reason that the Swedes brought a number of Finns to their colony of New Sweden in what is today Delaware.

T.