London Company

American  

noun

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

---

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

The London Company is responsible for the settling of both the South and the North.

From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French

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 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

Thinking that the telegram which warranted my calling at this Cardiff office of the London Company would best explain my intrusion, I handed it over the fateful counter.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund