倫敦公司(London Company),也叫維吉尼亞倫敦公司(Virginia Company of London),是1606年由詹姆斯一世頒布皇家憲章成立的一家股份公司,公司的目標是在北美建立殖民地[1]。
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英王的憲章允許倫敦公司的土地在北美東岸北緯34度到41度開闢100-平方英里(260-平方公里)的殖民地,其中38度以北的土地需要和普利茅斯公司共同開發。詹姆斯鎮殖民地就是由該公司建立的。公司靠賣菸草和經濟作物獲利,但由於英格蘭殖民地政策調整和詹姆斯頓大屠殺的爆發,公司在1624年倒閉。其子公司薩默斯群島倫敦公司(The London Company of The Somers Isles)繼續運營至1684年。
- The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London edited and introduction by Samuel M. Bemiss, published by Virginia's 350th Anniversary Celebration Corp, 1957, Williamsburg, Virginia. ISBN 0-8063-5088-1
- Dissolution of the Virginia Company: The Failure of a Colonial Experiment by Wesley Frank Craven, published by Oxford University Press, 1932, New York
- The Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624, by Wesley Frank Craven, published by University Press of Virginia, 1957, Charlottesville, Virginia. ISBN 0-8063-4555-1
- The First Seventeen Years: Virginia, 1607-1624, by Charles E. Hatch Jr. ISBN 0-8063-4739-2
- History of the Virginia Company of London with Letters to and from the First Colony Never Before Printed, by Edward D. Neill, originally published by Joel Munsell, 1869, Albany, New York, reprinted by Brookhaven Press ISBN 1-58103-401-6
- Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of A New Nation, by David A. Price, published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, New York