Regent University, Virginia Beach
24/7 Virginia Strategic Prayer Call
Date and Time: Mon / 7:00 PM ET
Coordinator: Debbie Sams
Phone: 667-770-1484
Code: 112841 #
About Virginia
The US state of Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is situated in the eastern United States, bordering the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean in the east.
It borders Maryland and the District of Columbia to the northeast, North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, Kentucky to the southwest and West Virginia to the north and west.
The state’s nickname is The Old Dominion.
Short History
The colonization of the New World began as an enterprise of investors.
In April 1606, King James I of England granted the Virginia Company a charter to establish colonies in Virginia. However, the king demanded 20% of the colony’s profits. The original 1606 charter included much of the Eastern Seaboard.
On the 13th of May, in 1607, three English ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery with about 145 settlers and sailors, arrived at the west bank of the James River estuary.
The motley crew of about 100 settlers had the intention to establish the first settlement in the New World. And so they founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.
The tobacco economy of the colony led to constant expansion and seizure of native Powhatan lands. After the Powhatan attack of 1622, where 347 English settlers were killed, King James I of England revoked the colony’s charter and placed it under royal rule.
The area of Virginia was part of the original territory of the United States. The Commonwealth entered the Union on 25th June 1788, as the 10th of the original thirteen states.
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