The Trial of Man

In the june of 1606 king James authorized a charter for the London Company of Virginia. This company was a group of entrepreneurs which was created to establish an English foot hold in the New World. The charter declared that the Virginia Company was to find gold, establish trade with the natives, seek out a Northwest passage to the pacific and gather resources for England. The following December of the same year 104 settlers consisting mainly of wealthy upperclass men within the society of the English empire.