伦敦公司

伦敦公司（London Company），也叫弗吉尼亚伦敦公司（Virginia Company of London），是1606年由詹姆斯一世颁布皇家宪章成立的一家股份公司，公司的目标是在北美建立殖民地。

英王的宪章允许伦敦公司的土地在北美东岸北纬34度到41度开辟的殖民地，其中38度以北的土地需要和普利茅斯公司共同开发。詹姆斯鎮殖民地就是由该公司建立的。公司靠卖烟草和经济作物获利，但由于英格兰殖民地政策调整和詹姆斯顿大屠杀的爆发，公司在1624年倒闭。其子公司萨默斯群岛伦敦公司（The London Company of The Somers Isles）继续运营至1684年。

参考文献

伸延閱讀
The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London edited and introduction by Samuel M. Bemiss, published by Virginia's 350th Anniversary Celebration Corp, 1957, Williamsburg, Virginia. 
Dissolution of the Virginia Company: The Failure of a Colonial Experiment by Wesley Frank Craven, published by Oxford University Press, 1932, New York
The Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624, by Wesley Frank Craven, published by University Press of Virginia, 1957, Charlottesville, Virginia. 
The First Seventeen Years: Virginia, 1607-1624, by Charles E. Hatch Jr. 
History of the Virginia Company of London with Letters to and from the First Colony Never Before Printed, by Edward D. Neill, originally published by Joel Munsell, 1869, Albany, New York, reprinted by Brookhaven Press 
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of A New Nation, by David A. Price, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, New York

外部連結
London Company nowadays (founded in 1994, not related in any way other than the name)
List of original settlers Jamestown Rediscovery
1606 Charter of the Virginia Company of London 
National Park Service brief 
Daily Republican: The Virginia Company 
Library of Congress  images of manuscript and printed editions of the Records of the Virginia Company of London
The Anglo-Powhatan Wars 
 Richmond Times Dispatch: Virginia's roots reach to Bermuda 
The Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624  - Free ebook from manybooks.net

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