10 April 1606; 418 years ago (1606-04-10) at Westminster, England
Founder
James I
Defunct
24 May 1624 (1624-05-24)
Fate
Dissolved following transformation of Virginia into a royal colony
Headquarters
London
,
England
Area served
Virginia and Summer Islands
Products
Cash crops, timber, tobacco
Divisions
London Company
Plymouth Company
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.[1][2][3] The company's shareholders were Londoners, and it was distinguished from the Plymouth Company, which was chartered at the same time and composed largely of gentlemen from Plymouth, England.[4][5][6][7]
The biggest trade breakthrough resulted after adventurer and colonist John Rolfe introduced several sweeter strains of tobacco[8] from the Caribbean.[9] These yielded a more appealing product than the harsh-tasting tobacco native to Virginia.[10] Cultivation of Rolfe's new tobacco strains produced a strong commodity crop for export for the London Company and other early English colonies and helped to balance a national trade deficit with Spain. The company failed in 1624, following the widespread destruction of the Great Massacre of 1622 by indigenous peoples in the colony, which decimated the English population. On May 24, James dissolved the company and made Virginia a royal colony from England[11] with propertied male colonists retaining some representative-government through the lower house, the House of Burgesses.[12][13][14]: 90–91
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