Virginia Company

The term is used for two Virginia Company in 1606 with a charter that is, license, founded by King James I. companies: The Virginia Company of London and the Virginia Company of Plymouth.

The London Company was allowed south of the 41st degree of latitude open the areas up to the 34th latitude, the Plymouth Company, in turn, the areas north of the 38th parallel up to the 45th parallel; in the area between the 38th and the 41st degree of latitude, the settlements of the companies should keep a distance of at least 100 miles ( 160 km ). The two companies were supervised by the local authority in England Council of Virginia.

Members of the Virginia Company of London then sailed to the New World and founded in 1607 on the James River Jamestown Settlement. The Virginia Company of Plymouth founded on August 13, 1607 settlement Popham (present day Phippsburg ), near the mouth of the Kennebec River, in what is now the U.S. state of Maine, but it has been abandoned in the year 1609.

The Virginia Company of London came later into financial difficulties, so the settlement was in the New World in 1624 to a royal colony.

• History of England in the early modern period
• British colonial history ( America)
• History of the Thirteen Colonies
• Trading Company
• Established in 1606