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The Somers Isles Company (fully, the Company of the City of London for the Plantacion of The Somers Isles or the Company of The Somers Isles) was formed in 1615 to operate the English colony of the Somers Isles, also known as Bermuda, as a commercial venture. It held a royal charter for Bermuda until 1684, when it was dissolved, and the Crown assumed responsibility for the administration of Bermuda as a royal colony.

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Somers Isles Company

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The Somers Isles Company (fully, the Company of the City of London for the Plantacion of The Somers Isles or the Company of The Somers Isles) was formed...

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Bermuda

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Somers Isles Company until 1684, when it became a crown colony. The first enslaved Africans were taken to Bermuda in 1616. The Somers Isles Company ensured...

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Virginia Company

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company's charter was officially extended to include the Somers Isles as part of the Virginia Colony. However, the isles passed to the London Company...

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London Company

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new company, the Somers Isles Company, which continued to operate Bermuda. It was subsequently, also known officially as The Somers Isles (for the Admiral...

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History of Bermuda

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1612. The Virginia Company administered the island as an extension of Virginia until 1614; its spin-off, the Somers Isles Company, took over in 1615 and...

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William Sayle

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Bermuda, or the "Somers Isles", was settled in 1609 as a result of the wrecking of the Sea Venture, the flagship of the Virginia Company. Although most...

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Chartered company

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Company 1606 Virginia Company 1606 Plymouth Company 1609 French Company 1610 London and Bristol Company 1616 Somers Isles Company 1618 Guinea Company...

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Harrington Sound

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Countess of Bedford. She was an adventurer (shareholder) in the Somers Isles Company. Local superstition stipulates the crater is bottomless. There are...

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English overseas possessions in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

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the Somers Isles Company appointed Captain Thomas Turner Governor in 1647, and Independents were removed from Government. A Somers Isles Company magazine...

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Richard Norwood

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he was in 1616 sent out by the Somers Isles Company to survey the islands of Bermuda (also known as the Somers Isles), then newly settled. After a quick...

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List of trading companies

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Suriname Somers Isles Company South Cameroon Company State Trading Corporation Swedish East India Company Swedish Levant Company Swedish South Company Swedish...

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British colonization of the Americas

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unintentionally by the shipwreck of the Virginia Company's Sea Venture in 1609, and renamed The Somers Isles—is still known by its older Spanish name, Bermuda...

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Politics of Bermuda

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to a new company (a Spin-off of the Virginia Company, described at the time as an under-company), The Somers Isles Company (The Somers Isles being the...

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Nicholas Trott

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family; his grandfather Perient Trott having been a husband of the Somers Isles Company and his uncle Sir Nicholas Trott served as the governor of the Bahamas...

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House of Assembly of Bermuda

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when Bermuda, or The Somers Isles, was administered by the Somers Isles Company (1615–1684), an offshoot of the Virginia Company. The House of Burgesses...

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George Somers

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colony of Bermuda, also known as the Somers Isles. Somers was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1554, the son of John Somers and his wife. From a young age he...

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Governor of Bermuda

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the Somers Isles Company appointed Captain Thomas Turner Governor in 1647, and Independents were removed from Government. A Somers Isles Company magazine...

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British America

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the Sea Venture (and plans were begun for an under-company that would become the Somers Isles Company). This was followed, in 1620, with the Pilgrims establishing...

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Bermuda sloop

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lucrative trade crops such as tobacco. The archipelago’s ruling Somers Isles Company, which favored tobacco agriculture, attempted to limit Bermudian...

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Sea Venture

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Jamestown supply missions -Third supply mission The Virginia Company Somers Isles Company History of Bermuda Colony and Dominion of Virginia History of...

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Coat of arms of Bermuda

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Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. The "Somers Isles" is another name for Bermuda, named after Sir George Somers, the colony's founder. The heraldic...

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Charter colony

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Proprietary colony Royal colony Colonial charters in the Thirteen Colonies Somers Isles Company Providence Island colony British America British colonization of...

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