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ish a?mada. Sir Walter having now expended 40,000/. 

 in these enterprises, obstructed occasionally by the 

 crown without a shilling of aid from it, was under a 

 necessity of engaging others to adventure their money. 

 He therefore, by deed bearing dale the 7th of March, 

 1589, by the name of Sir Walter Raleigh, Chief Gover- 

 nor of Assamacomoc (^probably Aconiac,) alias Winga- 

 dacoia, alias Virginia, granted to Thomas Smith and 

 others, in consideration of their adventuring certain 

 sums of money, liberty of trade to his new country, free 

 from all customs and taxes for seven years, excepting 

 the fifth part of the gold and silver ore to be obtained ; 

 and stipulated with them, and the other assistants, then 

 in Virginia, that he would confirm the deed of incor- 

 poration which he had given in 1587, with all the ])re- 

 rogatives, jurisdictions, royalties and privileges granted 

 to him by the Queen. Sir Walter, at different times, 

 sent five other adventurers hither, the last of which 

 was in 1602 : for in 1603 he was attainted, and put into 

 close imprisonment, which ])ut an end to his cares over 

 his infant colony. What was the particular fate of the 

 colonists he had before sent and seated, has never been 

 known : whether they were murdered, or incorporated 

 with the savages. 



Some gentlemen and merchants, supposing that by 

 the attainder of Sir Walter Raleigh the grant to him 

 was forfeited, not enquiring over carefully whetlier the 

 sentence of an English court could affect lands not 

 within the jurisdiction of that court, petitioned king 

 James for a new grant of Virginia to them. He accord- 

 ingly executed a grant to Sir Thomas Gates and others 

 bearing date the 9th of March 1607, under which, in 

 the same year a settlement was effected at Jamestown 

 and ever after maintained. Of this grant however, no 

 particular notice need be taken, as it was superseded by 

 letters patent of the same king, of May 23, 1609, to the 

 Earl of Salisbury and others, incorporating them by the 

 name of " the Treasurer and Company of adventurers 

 and ])lanters of the city of London for the first colony 

 in Virginia," granting to them and their successors all 

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