The London Company

London Company, also called Virginia Company, one of two English joint-stock companies chartered April 10, 1606, to colonize in North America. The other was the Plymouth Company. On May 14, 1607, the first London expedition, commanded by Captain Christopher Newport, founded the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. The company was reorganized in 1609 and again in 1612. In May 1624 it was dissolved because of difficulties in colonizing Jamestown.

The big Stockholder were the Culpepper's the first Govenor of Virginia and grandmother of William Clark.

The Culpepers are related to the Durg. So that makes me Related to William Clark

SMITH, John (1580-1631). The story of the life of Captain John Smith, as told by himself, reads more like an adventure novel than like a true autobiography. He was baptized on Jan. 6, 1580, in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England. In about 1600 he ran away from home and, traveling through France and at sea, survived some fantastic adventures. Then he fought in the war against the Turks in Hungary. After being captured and sold into slavery, he escaped to Russia.

In 1605 Smith joined an expedition that was preparing to go to America to found the colony of Virginia. During the voyage he was accused of conspiracy and he faced hanging. He was kept under restraint until after the expedition reached the James River. Then it was discovered that he was one of the councillors appointed by the Virginia Company in England to govern the colony, and the conspiracy charges were dropped. Soon the incompetence of others forced him to take charge of the Jamestown settlement, and he issued the famous order, "He who will not work shall not eat." He traded with the Indians to supply the colonists with corn.

While in Jamestown Smith was captured by hostile Indians and brought before their chief, Powhatan. As a warrior stood ready to club Smith to death, the chief's daughter Pocahontas embraced him and persuaded her father to spare his life. The truth of Smith's account of his rescue, however, is in doubt.

In 1609 Smith went back to England. In 1614 he charted the coast of southern Canada and the area he named New England. On a return voyage the next year he was captured by pirates, and he returned to England penniless. He spent much time in writing, and, though his works are not fully reliable, they provide much information about the Jamestown settlement. Smith died in London in June 1631.

BEDELL.. Some of the first of the name Bedell to reach the USA [nearly 180 years before it was the USA] were John and Gabriel Bedell who came to the New World in 1608 as part of the Virginia Company's "Second Supply" under Captain John Smith. They accompanied him on his voyage of exploration along the New England coast. Their sister, Dorothy Bedell, married second Roger Wingate of London, who became Treasurer to the Colony .
( NOTE) The Wingates' are Cousins of the Durg. as are the Bedell's of Washougal Washington

Plymouth Company, one of two joint-stock companies chartered in England, April 10, 1606, to colonize in North America. The other company was the London Company. The Plymouth Company was formed by George Popham and Sir Ferdinando Gorges. A first band of colonists set out from England and was captured by the Spanish. The second group of colonists, numbering 120, left England in 1607 and settled on the west bank of the Kennebec River, near what is now Popham Beach, Maine. The death of Popham and a severe winter forced them to return to England in October 1608, and the company founded no permanent settlements. In 1620 the Plymouth Company was reorganized as the Council for New England, which was disbanded in 1635.

My ancestors Lived there for hundreds of years before they came

6th great grandmother Mrs. Durrell was a Pequet Wampanoag Indian woman whos ancestors lived on the the Kennebec River for hundreds of years

The Phillip Durrell Family : Phillip born 1665 :married abt 1685

:died 1735- 6th great grandfather of Ted L Durgan.

On August 10 , 1703 , the Indians came up the river in his absence and carried off his wife and their children, Rachel, Susan, Benjamin and the baby Philip. At Pigwacket Mrs. Durell persuaded her captors to allow her to return with her baby, and an Indian kindly carried the child as far as Fort Mary in Saco Maine.

Durells Wife was a Pequet Wampanoag Indian- which would explain why the Indians gave her up so easily.

The others reached Canada and are on the list of 1711 prisoners as "Benjamin Dudy, Rachel Dudy, Susanah Dudy". [the History of Kennebunkport says that the girls married Frenchmen and refused to return when the war was ended. .Benjamin returned from captivity about 1711.