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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Newport's News. Nomen non Locus. (search)
s own mode of spelling it. alleged joint presence in the Colony, let us see how a few facts of history will dissipate into vanishing mist the dreams of Mr. Grigsby as to this matter. But permit first a few remarks preliminary thereto. When, in 1624, the King resolved to take away and abolish the charter of the Virginia Company of London, an attempt was made to obtain the records of the Company by their opponents. --[Neill.] Mr. Neill, in the preface to his history of that Company, states that, but was bestowed on him by a mere corporation, the creature of the government, and liable at any moment to be deprived of all power and authority, and of its very existence, by the act of the royal government; a fate which befell the Company in 1624. I think that Newport departed this life prior to the 17th November, 1619, for the following reason: At a great and generall courte of the Company in London, held on that day, the following minute was entered of record: Whereas, the Compan