London Company

In 1616 he wrote to the London Company urging the culture of the grape as a possible source of revenue for the new colony.

In 1620 the London Company made plans to abolish the magazine and open the trade to the public.

Thus the London Company, from the very outset, found itself face to face with a difficulty which it could never surmount.

The London Company made a provision that each new settlement should become a parish with its own rector.

King James became dissatisfied with the independent attitude of the London Company and personally secured its dissolution in 1624.