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The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America. The coast was named Virginia , after Elizabeth I , and it stretched from present-day Maine to the Carolinas .
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Professor William M. Raines, for whom the school is named William M. Raines High School Original Main Office Andrew A. Robinson, the school's first principal. In 1964, after the all-white students and staff at Jean Ribault High School rejected a plan to have Black students admitted, the Duval County School Board decided to build a dedicated school for them.
The Jamestown Polish craftsmen's strike of 1619 took place in the settlement of Jamestown in the Virginia colony. [1] It was the first documented strike in North America. [2] Skilled craftsmen were sent by the Virginia Company to Jamestown to produce pitch, tar, and turpentine used for shipbuilding. [3]
[1] [2] Stephens arrived to Colony of Virginia as an unmarried man of means, with two to four servants, [citation needed] on February 16 1624 [O.S. February 1623] aboard the George. [3] Stephens was an experienced military man and quickly began to establish himself in the colony by acquiring land, and was soon named burgess in the colony.
The Reverend William Crashaw was a member of the Virginia Company, as was his son, William, the poet. In any event, Raleigh (or Rawley) Croshaw arrived in Jamestown, Virginia on the Mary and Margaret, with the Second Supply in September, 1608. Raleigh eventually received a headright for his wife, so she emigrated by 1620.
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Edward Bennett (b. 1577 – d. c. 1651), was an English merchant based in London, and a free member of the Virginia Company.A Puritan who had lived in Amsterdam for a period, he established the first large plantation in the colony of Virginia in North America, in what became known as Warrosquyoake Shire (later as Isle of Wight County).