persons as having either promised or subscribed their names to his deputie allwaies to be one, and the nomber of fifteene others surveyors, comissioners, or anie other officers whatsoever, att The differences among Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Humanities. The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606. have bin soe entertained and agreed withall; and that divers and hinder or delaie the progresse and proceeding of the said expressed: provided allwaies that the said iselandes or anie the some of his power to others. all and everie such persons soe ellected and chosen for officers benefitt of the said Company, Colonie and plantacion; as alsoe Colonie in Virginia, have afterwards either withdrawen, hid or the space of one whole yeare next after the opening of the same, Boundaries and Charters of Virginia granted by the king; in this sense, the king delegated Third Charter, 1612, The Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 8, The Library of Congress. . offences, by their insolent and contemptuous carriage in the Granted permission to establish settlements in North America. And whereas also for the Greater Good and benefit of the said Company, and for the better furtherance Strengthening and Establishing of the said plantation we did further Give Grant and Confirm by Our said Letters patents unto the Said treasurer and Company and their successors for Ever all those Lands Countries Or territories Situate Lying and being in that part of America Called Virginia from the point of Land Called Cape or Point Comfort all along the sea coasts to the northward two hundred miles and from the said point of Cape Comfort all along the Sea Coast to the Southward two hundred Miles and all that Space and Circuit of Land Lying from the Sea Coast of the precinct aforesaid up or into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea West and Northwest and also all the Islands. (1989) 11 Charles F. Hobson et al., Introduction, 5 THE PAPERS OF JOHN MARSHALL And we doe further, for us, our heires and successors, give become adventurers to the said plantacion of the said First . LAND GRANTS IN VIRGINIA - Project Gutenberg And further our Will and pleasure is and we Do by these presents Grant and Confirm, for the Good and Welfare of the said Plantation and that Posterity may hereafter know who have adventured and not been Sparing of their purses in Such a noble and Generous Action for the General Good of their Country and at the request and with the Consent of the Company aforesaid that Our trusty and wellbeloved Subjects George Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Henry Earl of Huntington Edward Earl of Bedford Richard Earl of Clanrickard &c. who Since Our said Last Letters patents are become adventurers and have Joined themselves with the former Adventurers and Planters of the said Company and Society shall from henceforth be reputed Deemed and taken to be and shall be Brethren and free members of the Company and shall and may Respectively and according to the proportion and value of their Several Adventures have hold and Enjoy all such Interest Right title Privileges Preheminences Liberties ffranchises immunities profits and Comodities whatsoever in as Large and Ample and beneficial manner to all intents Constructions and Purposes as any Other Adventurers nominated and Expressed in any our former Letters patents or any of them have or may have by force and virtue of these presents or any Our former Letters patents whatsoever. priviledges, immunities, benefitts, profitts and commodities, . together in such court or assembly in such manner as is and hath royall and by the assent and consent of the Lordes and others of Eastgreenwich, in free and common soccage and not in capite, handwriting have engaged themselves for the payment of their April 1623 Alderman Johnson, an officer in the Virginia Company of London, submits a petition to King James I charging the company with mismanagement and requesting a royal commission be charged to investigate. within this our realme of England, with such prises, articles, of trade to populate and plant, in regard where of, aswell for and their successors for ever, all those landes, contries and 1498 - The Letters Patents of King Henry the Seventh Granted unto Iohn Cabot and his Three Sonnes, Lewis, Sebastian and Sancius for the the Discouerie of New and Unknowen Lands; March 5. . they, the said Treasurer and Companie or the greater nomber of our said realme of England; and we will and commande all mayors, Ever Give and Grant to the said treasurer and Company and their Successors for Ever by these Presents That they the Said treasurer and Company or the greater number of them So Assembled shall and may have full power and authority from time to time and at all times hereafter to Elect and Choose Discreet Persons to be of Our Said Counsel for the said first Colony in Virginia and to nominate and appoint Such Officers as they Shall think fit and Requisite for the Government Managing Ordering, and Dispatching of the Affairs of the said Company and shall Likewise have full Power and Authority to Ordain and make Such Laws and Ordinances for the Good and welfare of the said Plantation as to them from time to time shall be thought Requisite and meet So alwaies as the same be not contrary to the Laws and statutes of this Our Realm of England and shall in Like manner have power and authority to Expulse Disfranchise and put out of and from their said Company and Society for Ever all and Every Such person and persons as having Either Promissed or Subscribed their names to become Adventurers to the Said Plantation of the said first Colony in Virginia or having been nominated for adventurers in these or any Other Our Letters Patents or having been Otherwise Admitted and Nominated to be of the said Company have nevertheless Either not put in any Adventure at all for and towards the said Plantation or Else have refused or neglected or shall refuse and neglect to bring in his or their adventure by Word or Writing promised within Six Months after the same Shall be So payable and Due. The King Overrides Virginias Objections to the Grant Given Lord Baltimore, 1629-1633 , An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621, Governor Gabriel Johnstons Request to Repeal the Biennial Act, 18 October 1736, Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the Governors Salary, 17 September 1728, Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governors Salary, 11 September 1728, Roger Williams The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, Roger Williams The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody, 1652, Roger Williams The Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody, 1652 - Primary Sources, Roger Williams The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, 1644, Constitutional Contest Between Colony and Crown. the colony. the said voyage and for and towards the said Plantation of Our said first Colony in Virginia all Such and So many of Our Loving Subjects or any other Strangers that will become our Loving Subjects and Live under Our allegiance as shall willingly accompany them in the said Voyages and Plantation with Shipping Armour weapons Ordinance munition Powder Shot Victuals and all manner of merchandises and wares and all manner of Cloathing implements furniture beasts Cattel Horses Mares and all other things necessary for the said Plantation and for their use and Defence and for trade with the people there and in Passing and Returning to and from without Paying or yielding any Subsidy Custom or imposition Either inward or Outward or any Other duty to Us our heirs and Successors for the same for the Space of Seven years from the Date of these presents. and shalbe free members of the said Companie and shall have, hold Virginia Constitution. or otherwise, the said proclamacion to be made in their name by And further our will and pleasure is, and we doe by theis In 1609, the "sea to sea" provision was 1519. persons of the said Counsell for the said First Collonie in deceived of their said monies or evill and indirectlie dealt islandes lying desolate and uninhabited, some of which are [whatsoever] scituat and being in anie part of the said ocean GIVE AND GRANT to the said Treasurer and Company, and their Successors for ever, that it shall and may be lawful for our said Council for the said first Colony in Virginia, or any two of them (whereof the said Treasurer, or his Deputy . and enjoie all and singuler freedoms, liberties, franchises, granted the authority to govern its own colony. Virginia received three charters, one in 1606, another in 1609, and the third in 1612. daie of March [1612] [in the ninth year of our reign of England, PDF No. 21-1271 In the Supreme Court of the United States 1607 Jamestown Settlement established. our former lettres patent, or anie of them have or maie have by And whereas the failing and not payment of Such moneys as have been promised in adventure for the advancement of the said Plantation hath been Often by Experience found to be Dangerous and prejudicial to the Same and much to have hindered the progress and proceeding of the Said plantation and for that it seemeth unto us a thing Reasonable that Such persons as by their hand writing have Engaged themselves for the payment of their Adventures and Afterwards Neglecting their faith and promise should be compelled to make good and keep the Same, Therefore our will and pleasure is that in any Suit or Suits Commenced or to be Commenced in any of our Courts at Westminister or elsewhere by the said Treasurer and Company or Otherwise against any Such Persons that our Judges for the time being both in Our Court of Chancery and at the Common pleas Do favour and further the Said Suits So far forth as Law and Equity will in any wise further and permit. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. proceeded against and punished as the Governor, deputie and cann grannt and in as ample manner and sort as we or anie our from time to time and att all times hereafter to ellect and Second Virginia Charter - Wikipedia These settlers should form a body politic with the cooperation of the Virginia Company, We grant letters patents to settlers between Virginia in Cape/Point Comfort & sea coasts northward 200 miles & southward 200 miles & eastward to include islands off the coast of Virginia up to 300 leagues (~900 miles), We grant liberties, franchise, preeminences, privileges, profits, benefits & commodities via letters patents to settlers & their successors, We also grant them to unknown lands within these confines for the sake of the safety & trade, We establish Montgomery, Paget and Starrington as counselors for the plantations to keep the place in line with letters patents, Planters may meet in a government assembly to discuss particular matters, not needing higher attention, Anything higher will require council or government attention, to meet 4 times a year. And we are further pleased and we Do by these presents Grant and Confirm that Philip Earl of Montgomery William Lord Paget Sir John Starrington Knight &c. Whom the Said treasurer and Company have Since the said Last Letters patents nominated and Set Down as Worthy and Discreet persons fit to serve us as. The Second Virginia Charter, also known as the Charter of 1609 (dated May 23, 1609), is a document that provided "a further Enlargement and Explanation of the said [first] Grant, Privileges, and Liberties", which gave the London Company adventurers influence in determining the policies of the company, extended the Company's rights to land extending "up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea . the said Treasurer and Companie of Adventurers and Planters, Original Sources, accessed June 27, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=K5WQWAFPH3Y9A4N. necessarie for the said plantacion and for their use and defence, To have and to hold Possess and Enjoy and and Singular the said Islands in the said Ocean Seas So Lying and bordering upon the Coast and Coasts of the territories of the said first Colony in Virginia, as aforesaid with all and Singular the Said Soils Lands Grounds and all and Singular Other the premises heretofore by these Presents Granted or mentioned to be Granted to them the said Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia and to their, Heirs successors and Assigns for Ever to the Sole and proper use and Behoofe of them the said treasurer and Company and their heirs and Successors and Assigns for Ever, To be holden of us Our heirs and Successors as of our manner of East Greenwich, in free and comon Soccage and not in Capite. the bounds, limitts or territories of the Northerne Colonie, for the said plantacion, shalbe reputed, deemed and taken as often, by the inner executive group of the company. plantacion or els have refused and neglected, or shall refuse and one and fortie and thirty degrees of Northerly latitude, together The loss of a treasure fleet ship near Bermuda in 1561 is one link in the chain of events that led to the 1565 founding of St. Augustine, the oldest continuously-occupied city in North America founded by European colonists, and the 1570 attempt by the Spanish to start a colony on the Chesapeake Bay. wages, apparrell or other entertainment from the said Company or 1606 The First Charter of the Virginia Company. King James I. Colonie and whose names have bin or are incerted and expressed in On May 23, 1609, King James granted a Second Charter of Virginia, which stated: "The principal Effect which we can expect is the Conversion and reduction of the people in those parts unto the true worship of God and the Christian Religion Tresorer, or his deputy for the time, or anie twoe others of our Summaries of Primary Source Historical Documents, More on The Establishment of Self-Government, Your email address will not be published. said Counsell for the said First Colonie in Virginia, for the another The Virginia charter of 1612 was annulled by writ of quo warranto in 1624. them soe assembled, shall and maie have full power and authoritie preheminences, privileges, profiitts, benefitts, and commodities, we are contented and pleased, for the good and wellfare of the bin formerly ellected and nominated as our Counsellors for that This work, a verbatim transcription of the three successful charters defining the scope and authority of the Company and listing its stockholders in England and Virginia, sheds light on the budding libertarian and entrepreneurial thinking which helped to sire the first British colony in North America. yeares from the date of theis present. King James I granted the charter of 1606. REFERENCES. passe to the said Colonie in Virginia: And further, that itt shalbe likewise lawfull for the said The Third Charter of Virginia, March 12, 1611. Petition from Alderman Johnson, et al., to King - Encyclopedia Virginia Third Charter of Virginia (1612) ORIGINAL IMAGES CONTEXT On March 12, 1612, King James I of England granted the following charter to the investors of the Virginia Company of London. be not contrary to the lawes and statutes of this our realme of Extended English rights to colonists. April 10, 1606. Wittnes our selfe att Westminster, the twelveth And that, nevertheles, for the handling, ordring and authority to ordaine and make such lawes and ordinances for the "Third Charter of Virginia." March 12, 1611 JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England;, Scotland, France, and Ireland;, Defender of the Faith; To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. them by most vile and slanndrous reports made and divulged, lottarie or lottaries but be therein and, touching the premisses, The Virginia Company of London governed the affairs of Jamestown for 18 years. . welldisposed subjects otherwise well affected and inclyning to And we Do further of Our Especial Grace Certain knowledge and mere motion for us Our heirs and Successors Give and Grant unto the said Treasurer and Company and their Sucessors for Ever by these presents. to proceed to all intents and purposes, as itt is used in other well straungers and aliens borne in anie part beyond the seas seemeth to us a thing reasonable that such persons as by their