Edwin Sandys

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Sir Edwin Sandys (9 December 1561 - October 1629) was a British statesman and one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1607 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia, based at Jamestown. In addition to seeking profits for the company's investors, history records that his goal was a permanent colony which would enlarge English territory, relieve the nation's overpopulation, … Wikipedia
Born:
1561
Died:
1629
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