...failures, King James, in May 1009, granted a charter incorporating the London Company, under the title of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and...Planters of the City of London for the First Colony of Virginia." The territorial limits of the colony were extended to embrace the. whole, sea-coast north...

...priviledges and powers. The company was made "one body or commonalty perpetual," and was incorporated under the name of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers...Planters of the City of London, for the first colony of Virginia." To this body an absolute title was given to the territory extending from Point Comfort,...

...charter was also obtained, May 23. by -which the enterprise was placed upon quite a new footing. " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters...City of London, for the First Colony in Virginia," were made a corporation, its affairs to be managed by a council, of which the first members were named...

...charter was also obtained, May 23. j,y which the enterprise was placed upon quite a new footing. " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters...City of London, for the First Colony in Virginia," "were made a corporation, its affairs to be managed by a council, of which the first members were named...

...and Nnme°f the that they, and their successors, shall be known, called, and incor- ''""" ' porated by the name of, The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters for the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia. IV. And that they, and their successors, shall...

...placed upon a much better footing. The new grant essentially modified the first charter of 1606. " The treasurer and company of adventurers and planters...the city of London for the first colony in Virginia" were made a corporate body, to which the political powers, before reserved to the king, were now transferred....

...year 1610 that a patent was granted to the Earl of Northampton and others, incorporating them under the name of " the treasurer and company of adventurers and planters of the cities of London and Bristol for the colony and plantation in Newfoundland." Supplies seem to have...

...date the 9th of March, 1607, under which, in the same year, a settlement was effected at Jamestown, and ever after maintained. Of this grant, however,...the lands in Virginia from Point Comfort along the sea-coast, to the northward two hundred miles, and from the same point along the sea-coast to the southward...

...after maintained. Of this grant, however, no particular notice need be taken, as it was supercecled by letters patent of the same king, of May 23, 1609,...the lands in Virginia from Point Comfort along the sea-coast, to the northward two hundred miles, and from the same point along the sea-coast to the southward...

...chiefly in Plymouth. Three years after, the former council received a new charter of incorporation by the name of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers...City of London for the first Colony in Virginia," the name then given to nearly the whole coast. 3 The first council projected settlements in the southern...