Abstract
Late in 1609 the Virginia Company of London published a lengthy justification, A True and Sincere Declaration, arguing that investors should continue to support the Company's beleaguered colony at Jamestown. Earlier in the year, the Company had dispatched a fleet of eight ships carrying over five hundred colonists bound for Virginia. Little more than a week from reaching the American coast, the fleet was caught in a hurricane that drove its principal ship, the Sea Venture, far out to sea where she was believed lost. Hearing the grievous news in the fall, the Company rallied to a bold defense of why they and their supporters should persist with plans for Virginia. The “main ends” of the colony, the Company asserted, were to bring the Christian religion to the Indians, take possession of a new land for the English, and produce commodities that would be of value to the...
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