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Charter of 1606
The 'Charter of 1606', also known as the ''First Charter of Virginia'', is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company assigning land rights to colonists for the stated purpose of propagating the Christian religion. The land is described as coastal Virginia and islands near to the coast, but the surveying numbers correspond to modern day South Carolina to Canada. The land itself would remain the property of the King, with the London Company and the Plymouth Company (the two divisions of the Virginia Company) as the King's tenants, and the settlers as subtenants. The colony's government at first consisted of a council residing in London. The document designated the London Company as responsible for financing the project, which included recruiting settlers and providing for their transport and supplies.
==Purpose of Charter==
The charter contains only one statement of purpose, a religious mission: "propagating of Christian religion". King James also intended to spread Christianity to those already living in what was to become the English colonies. "in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government.〔
Some of the Jamestown〔Charter of 1606 at Wikisource.〕 historians did not believe that the settlers were qualified to govern and achieve the King’s mission of colonization and obtaining access to the orient,〔(History of Jamestown ). AVPA Preservation Virginia.〕
The charter also granted those born in the colonies all the rights of British citizens elsewhere and that they be compensated and protected in case they were robbed or spoiled by anyone.
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