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 men who received this gift associated themselves together under the name of the London Company, and in the same year sent out three vessels, carrying 105 men, but no women or children.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
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 Gay Montague Moore
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
After 1620, when the London Company was dissolved by royal decree, and the commerce of Virginia made free, the planters were the only factor.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
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