The First Charter of Virginia, also known as the Charter of 1606, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights...

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 Second Virginia Charter, also known as the Charter of 1609 (dated May 23, 1609), is a document that provided "a further Enlargement and Explanation...

the Virginia Company and Colony, the London Company owned a large portion of Atlantic and inland Canada. The company was permitted by its charter to establish...

In 1606, King James I of England created the Colony of Virginia. In the First Virginia Charter, he gave the London Company the right to "begin their Plantation...

1580s. The founder of the second colony was the Virginia Company, chartered by King James I, with its first two settlements being in Jamestown on the north...

org. Retrieved 2 July 2019. King James I (10 April 1606), The First Charter of Virginia Acts of Union 1707 parliament.uk, accessed 13 September 2011 Making...

dissolved the Virginia Company, converting the Colony of Virginia to a crown colony. William and Mary was founded under a new charter in 1693.[citation...

of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes. In Virginia, cities...

Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to...

officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, was a company chartered by King James in 1606 along with the Virginia Company of London with responsibility...

Charter colony is one of the three classes of colonial government established in the 17th-century English colonies in North America. In a charter colony...

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...

the territory not within the independent cities. Under Virginia law, counties may be chartered, although most are not. Their populations vary widely;...

had 547,000 subscribers in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Wisconsin. Charter also began swapping customers with...

chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or...

The first Africans in Virginia were a group of "twenty and odd" captive persons originally from modern-day Angola who landed at Old Point Comfort in Hampton...

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, there are two classes of city. The primary difference relates to the court system. A first-class city (e.g., Richmond)...

The Virginia Squires were a basketball team based in Norfolk, Virginia, and playing in several other Virginia cities. They were members of the American...

A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country...

Marshall College Fund. Virginia State University was founded on March 6, 1882, when the legislature passed a bill to charter the Virginia Normal and Collegiate...

looked upon charters as obstacles to colonial control and substituted the royal province for corporations and proprietary governments. The Virginia and Massachusetts...

& Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King...

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of...

at Henricopolis (also known as Henricus) in the Colony of Virginia, which received a charter in 1618; but only a small school for Native Americans had...

was a landowner and politician in colonial Virginia. He was a subscriber to the third charter of the Virginia Company who immigrated to the colony from...

group, having decided to call themselves "The Country Club of Virginia," received their charter on July 23, 1908. Notable members of the club have included...

Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main...

played their home games at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex.[citation needed] The team succeeded the Florida Tuskers, a charter UFL franchise based in Orlando...

first institution of higher education in what is now West Virginia. A liberal arts college, Bethany was chartered on March 2, 1840, by the Virginia legislature...