On March 12, 1612, King James I of England granted the following charter to the investors of the Virginia Company of London. It extends the colony‘s boundaries to include the islands of Bermuda and authorizes a lottery in order to raise funds. Some spelling has been modernized, contractions expanded, and paragraphs formed.
On May 23, 1609, King James I of England granted the following charter to the investors of the Virginia Company of London. It transferred control from the Crown to private investors, extended Virginia‘s borders from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and installed a new, more powerful governor who, it was hoped, would introduce discipline to Jamestown.
On April 10, 1606, King James I of England granted the following charter to the investors of the Virginia Company of London. It permitted them to settle a swath of the North American coast and led to the establishment of Jamestown a year later.
