London Company

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noun

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

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London Company

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

It is this which gave to the London Company its national character, and made its efforts to establish a colony across the Atlantic a crusade, a movement in which every Englishman was vitally concerned.

From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

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 Herbert Eugene Bolton

Even during the time of the London Company we find George Sandys writing to a friend in London to procure indentured servants for the colony as the wages demanded were intolerable.

From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Yet it was obvious to the London Company that tobacco held out the only prospect, not only of securing a profit from their venture, but of bringing to Virginia some measure of prosperity.

From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker