Excerpt from Old Jamestown: A Glance at Its History, Past and Present These organizations were known as the London and Plymouth companies and King james, being pleased with their plans of colonization, granted the (toastof North America from Cape Fear to the mouth of the Potomac River to the Lon don company; and from Long Island to Nova Sc'otia to the Plymouth company. In the year 1606, the former company, at whose head were such influential men as Sir Edward Sackville (afterwards the famous Earl of Dorset) and the Earl of Southampton. (the friend of Essex and patron of Shakespeare) fitted out three small ships. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.