<P> Following the failure of an earlier colonisation attempt, in the early 1600s, England resumed attempts to set up a number of colonies . This time jointstock companies were used rather than giving extensive grants to a landed proprietor such as Gilbert or Raleigh. . </P> <P> James granted a proprietary charter to two competing branches of the Virginia Company, which were supported by investors . These were the Plymouth Company and the London Company . By the terms of the charter, the Plymouth Company was permitted to establish a colony of 100 miles (160 km) square between the 38th parallel and the 45th parallel (roughly between Chesapeake Bay and the current U.S.--Canada border). The London Company was permitted to establish between the 34th parallel and the 41st parallel (approximately between Cape Fear and Long Island Sound), and also owned a large portion of Atlantic and Inland Canada . In the area of overlap, the two companies were not permitted to establish colonies within one hundred miles of each other . During 1606, each company organized expeditions to establish settlements within the area of their rights . </P> <P> The London company formed Jamestown in its exclusive territory, whilst the Plymouth colony formed the Popham Colony in its exclusive territory near what is now Phippsburg, Maine . </P> <P> The London Company hired Captain Christopher Newport to lead its expedition . On December 20, 1606, he set sail from England with his flagship, the Susan Constant, and two smaller ships, the Godspeed, and the Discovery, with 105 men and boys, plus 39 sailors . After an unusually long voyage of 144 days, they arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and came ashore at the point where the southern side of the bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, an event that has come to be called the "First Landing". They erected a cross and named the point of land Cape Henry, in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James . </P>

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