Essentials of United States history . harassed the Spaniards and made his famousvoyage around the world. Sir Walter Raleigh then attemptedto colonize Virginia and failed. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES 27 CHAPTER IV THE SOUTHERN COLONIES 27. The Two Companies. — In spite of the English failuresto colonize America, Englishmen more and more turned theirthoughts towards the possibilities of the new world. By theopening of theseventeenth cen-tury conditionsfavored a freshattempt. Englandhad given her oldenemy a crushingblow in the de-feat of the Span-ish Armada, andSpanish attackswere no longer tobe feared
Essentials of United States history . harassed the Spaniards and made his famousvoyage around the world. Sir Walter Raleigh then attemptedto colonize Virginia and failed. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES 27 CHAPTER IV THE SOUTHERN COLONIES 27. The Two Companies. — In spite of the English failuresto colonize America, Englishmen more and more turned theirthoughts towards the possibilities of the new world. By theopening of theseventeenth cen-tury conditionsfavored a freshattempt. Englandhad given her oldenemy a crushingblow in the de-feat of the Span-ish Armada, andSpanish attackswere no longer tobe feared, eitheron sea or on land. In 1606 certainfirm and heartylovers of coloniza-tion organized intotwo companies and obtained from King James charterswhich gave them the right to colonize that time the whole of the territory inNorth America claimed by Great Brrtain wascalled ^^irginia. To the first, which was known as theLondon Company, because most of its members livedin the vicinity of London, was given the territory be-. The Charterof 1606. 28 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY tween the 34th and 38th degrees of latitude, or from CapeFear to the mouth of the Potomac River. The second, or thePlymouth Company, whose members were residents of thewest of England, obtained the land between the 41st and 45thdegrees, or from Long Island to a little north of the present cityof Halifax. The region between was common property, butneither company could make a settlement within a hundredmiles of the other. The territories were to be a hundredmiles in width, but a second charter, granted three yearslater, extended the boundaries from sea to sea. No one,however, supposed that the distance between seas was morethan a few hundred miles. 28. The Purpose. — To find the way to the back side ofVirginia, which Sir Francis Drake had seen in 1579, wasindeed one of the chief reasons for sending out the is shown by certain instructions given to the Jamestownsettlers: You m
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