London Company

American  

noun

1. a company, chartered in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America, that founded Jamestown, Va., in 1607.

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Example Sentences

The merchant princes who founded enterprises such as the London Company in the 17th century wanted to build bustling empires across the seas.

From Economist • Apr. 27, 2016

August, 1606, Henry Challons was sent ahead in the Richard to select a site for the London Company, but was captured off Florida by a Spanish fleet and taken a prisoner to Seville.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

Here the London Company spent from �4,000 to �5,000 in a supreme effort to make their colony answer in some degree the expectations which had been placed in it.

From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson

The men who received this gift associated themselves together under the name of the London Company, and in the same year sent out three vessels, carrying 105 men, but no women or children.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles

A "Great Charter" was granted to it in 1613 by the London Company.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles