Identifier: historyofunited01andr (find matches)
Title: History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, 1844-1917 James, James Alton, 1864-1962
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ers enterprise had to beabandoned. In the ,£40,000 spent upon ithis means were exhausted. Besides, Encr-land was now at war with Spain, and theentire energies of the nation were in requi-sition for the overthrow of the SpanishArmada. CHAPTER IV. THE PLANTING OF VIRGINIA We have now arrived at the seventeenthcentury. In 1606 King James I. issued thefirst English colonial charter. It created afirst and a second Virginia Company, theone having its centre in London, and com-ing to be known as the London Company ;the other made up of Bristol, Exeter, andPlymouth men, and gradually taking thetitle of the Plymouth Company. Thislatter company, the second, or PlymouthCompany, authorized to plant between 38°and 450 north, effected a settlement in 1607at the mouth of the Kennebec River. Littlecame of it but suffering, the colonists, aftera severe winter, returning to England. A colony of one hundred and five plant-ers sent out by the first or London Com-pany, proceeded, also in 1607, to Chesa-
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King James I.Mr. Henry Irving s Collection. ;• L i6o7j THE PLANTING OF VIRGINIA 117 peake Bay, entering James River, to whichthey indeed gave this name, and plantedupon its banks Jamestown, the first perma-nent English colony on the continent.This London Company consisted of a coun-cil in England, appointed by the king,having the power to name the members ofa local council which was to govern thecolony, the colonists themselves having novoice. It is well known that the very earliestpopulation of the Old Dominion was notof the highest, but predominantly idle andthriftless. Vagabonds and homeless chil-dren picked up in the streets of London, aswell as some convicts, were sent to thecolony from England to be indented as ser-vants, permanently, or for a term of years.Persons of the better class, to be sure, cameas well, and the quality of the population,on the whole, improved year by year. Set-tlement here followed a centrifugal tend-ency, except as this was repressed by fearof the Indi

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