Excerpt from 1607-1907, Memories of Virginia: A Souvenir of Founding Days When the permanent settlement of James town was made, 1607, the entire British pos sessions in North America bore the name Vir ginia, named by Sir Walter Raleigh, when the successful expedition under his direction first discovered the Capes, and the Island of Roanoke. Later King James granted charter to two separate companies - called the London and Plymouth Companies - for settling Colonies of America. The London Company sent Capt. Christo pher Newport to Virginia December 20, 1606, with a colony of one hundred and five persons to commence settlement on the Island Of Roa noke - now in North Carolina, the land dis covered by Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother in-law, Gilbert, 1585. 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.