| Calvin Pepper - Manors - 1846 - 100 pages
...1606, to the South Virginia Company, was vacated at the desire of the patentees, and in 1609 renewed by the name of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers...Planters of the city of London, for the first colony of Virginia." This was again enlarged by that of 1611-12. The patent of the North Virginia Company... | |
| Samuel Finley Vinton - Fugitive slaves - 1846 - 44 pages
...city of London, and who by that charter were organized into a corporation under the name and style of "The Treasurer and Company of adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony of Virginia." By this charter, the King in the first place authorised this company, which was anciently... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1871 - 1168 pages
...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... | |
| Isaac S. Mulford - New Jersey - 1848 - 518 pages
...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,... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 584 pages
...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... | |
| Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 586 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Lucas - Carolina - 1850 - 156 pages
...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... | |
| JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD - 1853 - 838 pages
...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.... | |
| 1853 - 254 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 634 pages
...notice need be taken, as it was superceded by letters patent of the same king, of May 23, 1609, to the Earl of Salisbury and others, incorporating them by...City of London for the first colony in Virginia," granting to them and their successors all the lands in Virginia from Point Comfort along the sea-coast,... | |
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