sentences:  Other extant documents mention several forts at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay as early as 1610, possibly including Henry Town.These records indicate that settlement at Henry Town was contemporary with that at Virginia's first permanent settlement at Jamestown which was founded in 1607 on the opposite Western Shore of the Bay on the north shore upstream of the James River.Captain John Smith of Jamestown wrote of returning to Cape Henry in 1608 after his crew and a small boat outfitted with a sail had completed their first of several explorations of the coast and length of the Chesapeake Bay, but did not mention why or exactly where.