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|The Virginia Company was chartered by James I to establish colonies for the Kingdom of England in North America.{{Cite web |date=1998-12-18 |title=The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606 |url=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va01.asp |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=avalon.law.yale.edu}} It granted two regions based on where the shareholders were from: those from London were granted the area between 34° north and 41° north, while those from other towns, later known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, were granted the area between 38° north and 45° north. The charter allowed for them to establish settlements up to 100 miles inland, and in the overlapping area, they could not establish settlements within 100 miles of each other.Paullin p. 42Van Zandt, pp. 92–95

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|James I granted a new charter to the Virginia Company of London, greatly expanding their assigned region to an area running along the coast 200 miles north and south of Point Comfort, then "west and northwest," including islands within 100 miles.{{Cite web |last=Thorpe |first=Francis Newton |date=1998-12-18 |title=The Second Charter of Virginia; May 23, 1609 |url=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va02.asp |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=avalon.law.yale.edu}}Paullin p. 42

|James I granted a third charter to the Virginia Company of London, granting it all islands that lay between 30° north and 41° north, within 300 leagues of the previous grant; the primary effect of this was to grant the Somers Isles to Virginia.{{Cite web |last=Thorpe |first=Francis Newton |date=1998-12-18 |title=The Third Charter of Virginia; March 12, 1611 |url=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va03.asp |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=avalon.law.yale.edu}}

|The Somers Isles Company is split from the Virginia Company

|James I rechartered the Virginia Company of Plymouth as the Council for New England, granting it a strip between 40° north and 48° north, sea-to-sea.{{Cite web |last=Thorpe |first=Francis Newton |date=1998-12-18 |title=The Charter of New England : 1620 |url=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mass01.asp |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=avalon.law.yale.edu}}Van Zandt, pp. 55–60Paullin p. 42 Although it overlapped heavily with the area granted the Virginia Company of London, this never became an issue.

|Maine to Gorges and Mason. (Andrews, 1:334)

|The charter for the Virginia Company of London was revoked, and Virginia became a royal colony under the direct authority of the King and Privy Council.Morton, vol 1, p. 106 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020680933&seq=128]

|Charles I chartered the Massachusetts Bay Company was chartered to establish the colony of Massachusetts Bay, with

• territory stretching from three miles north of the Merrimack River ("to the Northward of any and every Parte thereof")
• to three miles south of the Charles River and extending westward from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean.
• to 3 miles south of the southernmost part of the bay
• The northern limit was in dispute and Massachusetts claimed a line three miles north of the source of the Merrimack River

Paullin p. 42Van Zandt, pp. 65–71

|After Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason divided their 1622 land grant, CfNE granted to Mason, lying between the Merrimack and Piscataqua Rivers and extending up to 60 miles inland from the coast.

|CfNE issued a new land patent (the "Old Charter") to Plymouth, area east of Narragansett Bay and south of a line from the Pawtucket (now Blackstone) River to the mouth of the Cohasset River, and the Kennebec Patent.

|CfNE patented the Province of Lygonia. Farnham, 7:134

|Charles I made Maryland, granting it as a proprietary colony to Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore. Territory included all "hitherto uncultivated" land that "lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude," and was bounded on the south by the south bank of the Potomac River, a line from the river's mouth across Chesapeake Bay to Watkins Point, and thence a line due east across the Delmarva peninsula to the ocean, and on the west by the meridian of the head of the Potomac. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/ma01.asp vz-md

|The Council for New England surrendered its charter.[https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mass04.asp] It had already distributed grants to its primary members, hoping that the King would confirm them.[Preston, Richard Arthur. Gorges of Plymouth Fort: A Life of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Captain of Plymouth Fort, Governor of New England, and Lord of the Province of Maine. p 305]

|Virginia recognizes Maryland insofar as it bans trade with Indians there without Calvert permission. Van Zandt says they did so by treaty in 1658, but no corroboration found.

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|Charles 1 granted Maine as a proprietary colony to Ferdinando Gorges.[https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/me02.asp]

Piscataqua River, to Salmon Falls River (Newichawannock in Abenaki)

to its furthest head then northwest 120 miles

then along coast to Sagadahock (Kennebec) River, to its head, 120 miles northwest from the mouth

north half of isle of shoals

capawock (martha's vineyard) and nawlican (maybe nantucket?)

[Preston, 321-322, 334, 344]

|Massachusetts and New Plymouth agreed on the course of their mutual boundary from the mouth of Bound Brook at the Cohasset marshes through Accord Pond to a point three miles south of the Charles River, a refinement of their charter boundary descriptions. Bradford, 440ish.

|The southern line of Massachusetts was surveyed by Nathaniel Woodward and Solomon Saffrey, but they were wildly inaccurate. Hooker, Roland Mather. Boundaries of Connecticut. Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Committee on Historical Publications, Pamphlet 11. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933., page 16[https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8987793731244786&set=gm.3885734175038266&idorvanity=2021191824825853]

|Providence Plantations was granted to Roger Williams.

|Mass Bay claims a new northern line

|The Kennebec Patent is purchased from Plymouth; removing it from Plymouth at this time, but not granting it to anyone else since it's gonna be complicated

|Connecticut receives royal charter

|Carolina chartered.[https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc01.asp]

|Rhode Island receives royal charter

|York granted Conn->Hud->Del, Kennebec->StCroix->StLawrence, and the islands

|Mass-Plymouth Old Colony Border

|New Jersey granted from York

|NY-Conn border

|RI-Mass-Plymouth border

|Kings Province

|Carolina thiccer

|York re-granted

|Jersey split

|NH royal