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    The Virginia Company of London (sometimes called "London Company") was a division of the Virginia Company with responsibility for colonizing the east...
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    The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America...
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    Plymouth Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, was a company chartered by King James in 1606 along with the Virginia Company of London...
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  • the third Virginia Company of London. This Harris family appears to have originated some 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 km) east-north-east of London and on the...
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  • John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1771–June 1775) Virginia Virginia Company of London Virginia Colony List of governors of Virginia Bruce, Philip Alexander;...
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    Godspeed (ship) (category English colonization of the Americas)
    was one of the three ships on the 1606–1607 voyage to the New World for the English Virginia Company of London which resulted in the founding of Jamestown...
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    the north shore of the James River upstream from Hampton Roads harbor at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The Virginia Company of London set up a government-run...
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    Edwin Sandys (1561–1629) (category English company founders)
    the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1626. He was also one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1606...
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    of the Jamestown colony was the Virginia Company, chartered by King James I, with its first two settlements being in Jamestown on the north bank of the...
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    James River, about 2.5 mi (4 km) southwest of present-day Williamsburg. It was established by the London Company as "James Fort" on May 4, 1607 O.S. (May...
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    Thomas Graves (burgess) (category House of Burgesses members)
    Graves (c. 1580–1635) was one of the original Adventurers (stockholders) of the Virginia Company of London, and one of the very early Planters (settlers)...
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    capital of Virginia. The London Company sent an expedition to establish a settlement in the Virginia Colony in December 1606. The expedition consisted of three...
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  • governor and treasurer of the Virginia Company of London under Edwin Sandys. Ferrar was born on 2 December 1588, the third son of Mary Ferrar née Wodenoth...
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    Discovery (1602 ship) (category Exploration ships of England)
    World for the English Virginia Company of London. The journey resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia. In 1602, George Weymouth...
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    Bartholomew Gosnold (category People from colonial Virginia)
    explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America. He led the first recorded European...
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    Ancient planter (category People from Virginia)
    colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia when the settlement was managed privately by the Virginia Company of London. A colonist received a land grant...
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    secretary of the colony of Virginia, wrote to Virginia Company of London treasurer Edwin Sandys: About the latter end of August, a Dutch man of Warr of the...
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    in Virginia. Letter to Virginia Company of London, April 4, 1623" Susan Myra Kingsbury, editor. Records of the Virginia Company, 1606–26, Volume IV: Miscellaneous...
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    Susan Constant (category Exploration ships of the United Kingdom)
    largest of three ships of the English Virginia Company on the 1606–1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia. Captained...
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    William Farrar (settler) (category History of Virginia)
    politician in colonial Virginia who served on the Virginia Governor's Council. A subscriber to the third charter of the Virginia Company, Farrar immigrated...
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    royal government in London had heard enough about the problems of the colony and revoked the charter of the Virginia Company. Virginia became a crown colony...
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    University of London. Parents Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on 25 January 1882 at 22 Hyde Park Gate in South Kensington, London, to Julia...
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    they allowed him to travel on to London. Anthony Jenkinson succeeded Chancellor as the main trader of the Muscovy Company. Jenkinson made two important voyages...
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    established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term...
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  • Jamestown (TV series) (category Television series about the history of the United States)
    Henry Sharrow – Eldest brother of the three Sharrows Gwilym Lee as Samuel Castell – Recorder to the Virginia Company of London in Jamestown (Series 1) Jason...
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    began in present-day Virginia with Jamestown, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Virginia Company colony was looking...
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    Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2023 the company was accused in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio...
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  • London Bridge is an unincorporated community within the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. It is located in the area of Great...
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  • archaic term for a shareholder of a joint-stock company, such as the Virginia Company of London Adventurers' Act, a 1642 Act of the English Parliament intended...
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    eldest son of King James I of England. These English colonists of the Virginia Company of London moved on from this area, as they were under orders to seek...
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