Answer: What were the first trades practiced at Jamestown? Four carpenters, two bricklayers, a mason, and a blacksmith were the first tradesman, arriving with the first settlers in 1607. These were the trades needed to build houses and other structures. Also aboard was a tailor, one barber and two surgeons.
Explanation: the jamestown colonists had first practiced trade with the powhatan indians using glass beads and copper for food (corn) that they were in dire need of, then the indians started to exchange cloth, axes, and guns for more glass beads. HOPE IT HELPS YOU .THANKS .