Was there a ship that came before the Mayflower? What was it called, who was on it? What year did it come over

Here is a site which mentiones a ship Marigold going to Virginia in May 1619.

Was there a ship that came before the Mayflower? What was it called, who was on it? What year did it come over
The English who settled Jamestown in 1607 arrived on three ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery. In 1608 the John %26amp; Francis and the Phoenix arrived at Jamestown. The Mary %26amp; John arrived in 1609 and another ship bound for Jamestown, the Sea Venture, was lost near Bermuda. I have never heard of a later ship named the Marigold but there could have been one.
Reply:Yes look on the net www.history.com


Leif Eriksson the Viking was before the Mayflower and the rest of them. He obviously could have taken all this credit that everyone else has, but where is the profit? What does it matter now. The only thing he did not do is claim that he found an occupied land and slaughtered the people who were the natural inhabitors. Americas Vaspuchas never landed here he only made maps.
Reply:http://en.wikipedihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ponce_... Found a link mentioning the Marigold.
Reply:I don't know the name of the ship, but the first English expedition to reach the shores of the present USA was John Smith %26amp; the Virginia Company settlers that founded Jamestown in 1607. The Puritan Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, MA in 1620. Columbus had stumbled upon the the Bahamas %26amp; Hispaniola in 1492/93, and of course, the first Europeans to reach North America PERIOD were Leif Erickson and the Vikings at L'anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Don't know what year that was, but it was way earlier
Reply:I assume you are asking whether a ship bearing would-be colonists came before 1620 (Plymouth) to the Cape Cod area. I don't know about that, but a fair number of ships had sailed from Europe to that area and surrounding areas to fish commercially. These expeditions did not colonize. Jamestown, Va was 1607, and Massachusetts Bay was 1630. St. Augustine was the first European Colony. We tend to think the Mayflower was the first, but that's not so. Have you read Mayflower by Nathan Philbrick? A great book. Sorry I don't have absolute info right this minute. I hope you will research this family legend.
Reply:yes there was another ship that got here before mayflower. it was a viken named america vespuchi or somethin like that. don't know the ships name though. america wasn't acutally discovered by columbus. was discovered by a viken.