Ohio History Journal


OHIO

OHIO

Archaeological and Historical

PUBLICATIONS.

 

FROM CHARTER TO CONSTITUTION:

 

BEING A COLLECTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE TER-

RITORY OF THE NORTHWEST AND THE STATE OF OHIO, FROM THE

CHARTERS OF JAMES I, TO AND INCLUDING THE FIRST CONSTITUTION

OF OHIO, AND THE STATE PAPERS RELATING TO ITS ADMISSION TO THE

UNION, SHOWING THEREBY THE HISTORICAL CHAIN OF TITLE OF SAID

STATE FROM 1606 TO 1803.

 

BY DANIEL J. RYAN.

THE FIRST CHARTER OF VIRGINIA.

 

TO SIR THOMAS GATES, SIR GEORGE SOMERS AND OTHERS,

FOR TWO SEVERAL COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS, TO BE

MADE IN VIRGINIA, AND OTHER PARTS AND TERRITORIES

OF AMERICA.

(DATED APRIL 10, ]606. 4 JAMES 1ST.)

1. James, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland,

France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. Whereas, our

loving and well-disposed subjects, Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir

George Somers, Knights, Richard Hackluit, Clerk, Prebendary

of Westminster, and Edward-Maria Wingfield, Thomas Hanham,

and Ralegh Gilbert, Esqrs., William Parker, and George Popham,

gentlemen, and divers others of our loving subjects, have been

humble suitors unto us, that we would vouchsafe unto them our

license, to make habitation, plantation, and to deduce a colony

of sundry of our people into that part of America, commonly