...resorted to, the charter could not have authorized the measure. But the truth is, that the charter enabled the treasurer and company of adventurers and planters of the city of London for the first colony of Virginia only, to plead and be impleaded ; to hold lands within the limits of the charter ; to distribute...

...resorted to, the charter could not have authorized the measure. But the truth is, that the charter enabled the treasurer and company of adventurers and planters of the city of London for the first colony of Virginia only, to plead and be impleaded ; to hold lands within the limits of the charter ; to distribute...

...General, Sir John Dodderidge, King's Sergeant, and more than forty associates, incorporating them under the name of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the Cities of London and Bristoll, for the Colony and Plantation in Newfoundland." This document recites...

...General, Sir John Dodderidge, King's Sergeant, and more than forty associates, incorporating them under the name of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the Cities of London and Bristoll, for the Colony and Plantation in Newfoundland." This document recites...

...obtained great influence in Parliament, and in May (1609) they procured a new charter, under the title of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and...City of London for the First Colony in Virginia," by which the border of the domain was extended, by a grant of new territory, northward to Chesapeake...

...charter incorporating the London Company, nnder the title of " Tho Treasnrer and Company of Adventnrers and Planters of the City of London for the First Colony in Virginia," and created a conncil to manage and control it with other necessary officers. The territorial limits...

...incorporating the London Company, under the title of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers ami Planters of the City of London for the First Colony in Virginia," and created a council to manage and control it with other necessary officers. The territorial limits...

...charter with enlarged privileges. This was granted to them, on the 2jd of May, under the corporate name of " The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers...City of London for the first Colony in Virginia." The new Association, which embraced representatives of every rank, trade, and profession, included...

...charter was granted to the colony, " authorizing," as stated by Mr. Neill, " the use of the corporate name of the Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and...City of London for the First Colony in Virginia," and granting that part of America, on the sea-coast, two hundred miles north, as well as two hundred...

...be ready at hand to give them advice and assistance." The Company was to be known by the corporate name of The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and...City of London, for the first Colony in Virginia. Under the First Charter, they were allowed to begin their Plantation between the thirty-fourth and...