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	Bermuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1615, the Island was passed to a new Company, the Somers Isles Company (The Somers Isles remains an official name for the Colony), formed by the same shareholders.
		(William Shakespeare's play The Tempest may have been influenced by William Strachey's account of this shipwreck.) The Island was claimed for the English Crown, and the charter of the Virginia Company was extended to include it.
		The flotilla was broken up by a storm, and the flagship, the Sea Venture, was wrecked off Bermuda (as depicted on the territory's Coat of Arms), leaving the survivors in possession of a new territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bermuda (2391 words)

	Chapter 9 - The Business of Slavery
		The Rich family were anti-Spanish and therefore distasteful to James I. The second Earl of Warwick continued the earlier privateering expeditions of his forebears; in 1614 he became one of the original members of the Somers Isles Company.
		By 1638, Thomson was involved with the Providence Island Company which had plans to use a silver mine in the Bay of Darien.
		Warwick was a "privateering magnate" and "was to lead the Providence Company in a private war with Spain".
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /business/business9.html (2391 words)

	Bermuda and USA have unique historical and commercial ties
		Shakespeare was also acquainted with Admiral Sir George Somers and the author of one of the letters, William Strachey, Secretary (and scribe) of the Virginia Company, one of the original "Island of Devils" castaways, who had been a part time playwright in London.
		In 1612 the Bermuda islands, then known as the Somers Islands as well, were included in the Third Charter of the Virginia Company.
		Bermuda was part of Britain's American empire, referred to in London as "His Majesty's Islands of the Bermudas or Somer's Isles in America" - thus Bermuda is NOT part of the Caribbean (as far to the south as Dallas, Texas is from New York).
	www.bermuda-online.org /usa.htm (2391 words)

	File 6a - 1625-1650 - Merchants and Bankers Listings
		The Rich family were anti-Spanish and therefore distasteful to James I. The second Earl of Warwick continued the earlier privateering expeditions of his forebears; in 1614 he became one of the original members of the Somers Isles Company.
		Squabbling over Virginia, and with company reforms of 1618, Sir Edwin Sandys' "gentry party" battled Sir Thomas Smythe's "merchant party" for the position of treasurer of the Virginia Company.
		Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, was the eldest son of Robert (1559/60-1618-19), the first Earl Warwick and third Baron Rich, and great-grandson of Richard, first Baron Rich, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations to Henry VIII, founder of the family fortunes, a Puritan and a contemporary of John Preston.
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /merchants/merchants6a.htm (17314 words)

	slavebc.htm - Questions on Slavery - The Blackheath Connection
		The Rich family were anti-Spanish and therefore distasteful to James I. The second Earl of Warwick continued the earlier privateering expeditions of his forebears; in 1614 he became one of the original members of the Somers Isles Company.
		A noted figure in seventeenth century power struggles over the proprietorship of English Caribbean islands, was Francis Willoughby (1613-1666), fifth Baron Willoughby of Parham, in 1660 a grantee of the "Morocco Company".
		In the 1620s, Lord Mayor Ralph Freeman, East India Company and Russia Trade (0ne of the few Russia merchants who can be associated with slavery).
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /blackheath/slavebc.htm (17314 words)

	Smiths's Parish in Bermuda
		He was knighted by King James and became the first Governor of the famous East India Company and first Governor of the Somers Isles Company - Bermuda - an office he held at the time of his death in 1625.
		Smith's Parish's crest, from that of Sir Thomas Smith
		Smith's Parish, Smith's Island (61 acres, in St. George's Harbour in Bermuda) is also named after him, as are several places in Virginia and Smith's Sound in latitude 75 North to the West of Greenland.
	www.bermuda-online.org /seesmith.htm (5387 words)

	slavebc.htm - Questions on Slavery - The Blackheath Connection
		The Rich family were anti-Spanish and therefore distasteful to James I. The second Earl of Warwick continued the earlier privateering expeditions of his forebears; in 1614 he became one of the original members of the Somers Isles Company.
		A noted figure in seventeenth century power struggles over the proprietorship of English Caribbean islands, was Francis Willoughby (1613-1666), fifth Baron Willoughby of Parham, in 1660 a grantee of the "Morocco Company".
		The newcomers quickly helped consolidate "the Barbados aristocracy." (
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /blackheath/slavebc.htm (5387 words)

	Bermuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bermuda (fully, The Bermuda Islands, alias The Somers Isles) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean, situated around 600 miles (975 km) off the coast of the United States.
		After the dissolution of the Somers Isle Company, Bermudians rapidly abandoned agriculture for ship-building, replanting farmland with the native juniper (Juniperus Bermudiana, Bermuda cedar) trees that grew thickly over the whole island.
		Bermuda is located in the North Atlantic Ocean roughly 580 nautical miles (1074 kilometers) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and roughly 590 nautical miles (1093 kilometers) southeast of Martha's Vinyard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bermuda (2585 words)

	Chapter 9 - The Business of Slavery
		The Rich family were anti-Spanish and therefore distasteful to James I. The second Earl of Warwick continued the earlier privateering expeditions of his forebears; in 1614 he became one of the original members of the Somers Isles Company.
		The Rich family, Earls Warwick, had a large interest in Bermuda; and second Earl Warwick became governor of the Bermuda Company in 1628.
		Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, was the eldest son of Robert (1559/60-1618-19), the first Earl Warwick and third Baron Rich, and great-grandson of Richard, first Baron Rich, chancellor of the Court of Augmentations to Henry VIII, founder of the family fortunes, a Puritan and a contemporary of John Preston.
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /business/business9.html (8400 words)

	Chapter 9 - The Business of Slavery
		The Rich family were anti-Spanish and therefore distasteful to James I. The second Earl of Warwick continued the earlier privateering expeditions of his forebears; in 1614 he became one of the original members of the Somers Isles Company.
		(Earl Dorset was Richard Sackville (1589-1624)), third earl of Dorset, an investor in the Virginia Company by 1609.
		These were some of the merchants involved by the time William Claiborne in Virginia was promoting the Kent Island project (basically in territory later called Maryland).
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /business/business9.html (8400 words)

	slavebc.htm - Questions on Slavery - The Blackheath Connection
		The Rich family were anti-Spanish and therefore distasteful to James I. The second Earl of Warwick continued the earlier privateering expeditions of his forebears; in 1614 he became one of the original members of the Somers Isles Company.
		Colleton was engaged with Barbados, Sir William Berkeley had been a governor of Virginia.
		Carteret and John Berkeley were involved with New Jersey.
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /blackheath/slavebc.htm (12144 words)

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