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One company was from Mercer County, which was located in western Virginia and became part of the new state of West Virginia. Another company was from Stokes County, North Carolina, which is located along the border with Virginia. [2] Captains William P. Cecil and William Blessing became majors of the battalion. [1]
Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River.
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 .
And which was mortgaged together with an additional 102 acres (0.41 km 2) by Sir John Harve (John Harvey (Virginia governor)) as well as to pay transportation costs for 2 persons (Jean du Fer and his brother Francois, two surviving children of the 1622 massacre) as well as 750 acres (3.0 km 2) to pay for transportation for 15 persons (mill ...
Map showing the grants provided for in the Charter of 1606. The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the creation of a settlement which could be used as a base to export commodities to Great Britain and create a buffer preventing total Spanish control of the North ...
It is considered one of the 5 original shires of the Virginia colony to be extant essentially in the same political form (county) in 2005. Williamsburg became an independent city from James City County in 1884. However they share a school system, courts, and some constitutional officers.
William Sharpe (sometimes referred to as Sergeant Sharp or William Sharp) was an early Virginia colonist, soldier, ancient planter, and Virginia Company shareholder who settled in the Bermuda Hundred area that became part of Charles City County, Virginia. He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1629.
In December 1606, the Virginia Company's three ships, containing 105 men and boys as passengers and 39 crew members, [12]: 601–602 set sail from Blackwall, London and made landfall on 26 April 1607 at the southern edge of the mouth of what they named the James River on the Chesapeake Bay.