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

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

The London Company, thrice chartered to take over to itself the land and resources of Virginia and populate its zone of rule, was endowed with sweeping rights and privileges which made it an absolute monopoly.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers

One of his lieutenants, capturing an English official, found on him an order from the London Company to proclaim English sovereignty over the whole bay.

From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.

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