In 1606, British King James the First granted the Virginia Company of London a charter. A year later, this privately-funded, joint-stock company established the first, permanent English colony in North America at Jamestown, in the colony of Virginia. What did the company have to do to establish this colony? How much capital did it have to raise to support its colonial venture, and from whom did it raise this money?

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