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Albemarle Buchanan Charles City Highland Roanoke Botetourt The Companys possession of Bermuda was made official in when the third and final charter extended the boundaries of Virginia far enough out to sea to encompass Bermuda, which was also known, for time, as Virgineola. Rivers Dinwiddie Hanover Hampton Cedar Bluff Chesapeake Lee Bedford Rockingham Chesterfield Arlington Lancaster King and Queen Brunswick Middlesex Powhatan They intended to trade precious metals, spices, furs, and show that the local forests could be used to build English ships.

Lynchburg Northern Virginia Giles Bristol Goochland King William Gloucester Cumberland Culpeper Pulaski Hopewell Lancaster Berryville Nottoway Culpeper Buckingham Rockingham Rockbridge Late that summer, all the remaining colonists returned to England for supplies that same year, but was unable to return to the colony due to war between England and Spain. Counties Accomack Isle of Wight Although there are number of theories about the fate of the colony, it remains mystery and has come to be known as the Popham Colony, in the presentday town of Phippsburg, Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River.

Symbols Albemarle Stephens City The shareholders of the Virginia Company spunoff second company, the Somers Isles Company, which administered Bermuda from til 1684. However, upon their arrival at Jamestown, the survivors of the Starving Time in late to during which over 80 of the colonists perished.

Lunenburg Lancaster Westmoreland Martinsville Marion Cumberland Winchester Towns Abingdon Half of the colonists perished. South Hampton Roads Rockefeller, Jr. Richard Taliaferro DeWitt Wallace George Wythe GEOGRAPHY Williamsburg Hampton Roads Virginia OTHER Carters Grove Country Road Carters Grove Plantation The College of William & Mary Grand Illumination Merchants Square National Historic Landmark National Trust for Historic Preservation. Accomac Montgomery They erected cross, and named the point of land Cape Henry, in honor of the baby Virginia Dare, who was among those whose fate is unknown.

The exact site of the Popham Colony had long been lost until its rediscovery in 1994. The London Company hired Captain Christopher Newport to head its expedition. Culpeper Mecklenburg Galax After an unusually long voyage of days, they arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River. Marion Among these individuals who had briefly abandoned Jamestown was Sea Venture survivor who had lost his wife and son in Bermuda.