1606 CE–1607 CE
Virginia charter and the Jamestown settlement
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · Companies, trade & extraction · Indigenous peoples & dispossession
An investor company received a charter to colonize Virginia and founded Jamestown in Paspahegh territory within Tsenacomoco. Its early survival depended on exchange and conflict with the polity led by Powhatan
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