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
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
Land had been the only wages of the London Company and he was not in Virginia to stake his claims.
From The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight
The London Company, when they sent Sir Thomas Gates to Virginia with the letters patent of 1609, gave directions that the utmost severity should be used in putting an end to lawlessness and confusion.
From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
In 1620 the London Company petitioned the king to do away with the tobacco monopoly and as a result the London and Bermuda companies were allowed to import fifty-five thousand pounds annually.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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