Virginia (Monarchist World)

Virginia was established under Royal Charter by the Virginia Company of London with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 with Company Rule ending in 1624 after the Jamestown Massacre of 1622 (Indian Massacre of 1622) which in conjecture with the companies failure to discover gold became justification for the company's charter to be revoked by James I where upon Virginia became a Royal Colony. The Massacre had served as a message that the company had little interest in the security of the colonist and the crown took to rectifying that situation by ignoring previous treaties with the natives made under Company Rule when such treaties where no longer in the favor of colonials. This resulted both in a greater well being for the colonist and an expansion of territory and thus of avaliable land for exploitation though at a lose of life during the three Anglo-Powhatan Wars which resulted in the Treaty of 1646 where in the Powhatan Confederacy became a tributary state to the Crown of England.

Developer Notes

 * English Civil War: In OTL the English Commonwealth sent troops into Virginia, whose administration was Royalist during the conflict, to enforce a new Parliamentarian friendly administration in 1652. With a Royalist victory in the civil war this does not happen and thus Governor William Berkeley who was appointed by Charles I would continue uninterrupted to fill that office (apparently till his death in 1677). As such he'll have to handle and likely be shaped by what he deals with as Governor in place of the Cromwellians who took up the office in OTL. As such we'll be examining the governorship of Richard Bennet, Edward Digges, and Samuel Mathews for details on what Berkeley has had to deal with in this timeline. As in OTL he'll work to prevent the company from again obtaining control of Virginia.