London Company
Americannoun
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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
No wonder the leaders of the London Company were pleased, believing that in the Indian weed they had discovered a veritable gold mine!
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
The growth and development of the colony of Virginia into a great agricultural population occupied in the cultivation of tobacco was not at all what the London Company had in mind.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague
It is doubtful whether the members of the London Company, even Sir Edwin Sandys himself, ever attempted to visualize the social structure which would develop in the Virginia they were planning.
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
James I of England, general policy, 112, 113; treaty with Spain, 114; the London Company, 123; non-conformists, 136.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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