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The Dream of Virginia
European's hoped that the Western Hemisphere would prove a new Eden of peace and plenty.
Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company of London, a stock company established in 1606 by a royal charter issued by James I. The king made promised in that charter that Virginians would remember in 1775: all in Virginia "and every of their children shall have and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities as if they had been abiding and born within this our Realm of England." |