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