Bermuda colony

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The Bermuda colony was an early 17th-century English settlement in the North Atlantic that became a strategic maritime outpost and one of England’s first permanent overseas colonies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English colony
North Atlantic island colony
overseas colony
capital St. George’s
country Kingdom of England
earlyEconomy tobacco cultivation
ethnicComposition English settlers
Native American slaves
enslaved Africans
foundedBy Virginia Company
Virginia Company of London
foundingSettlement St. George’s
governmentType British colonial administration
linked to: Colonial Office

English colonial administration
hasGovernor Governor of Bermuda
hasLegislature House of Assembly of Bermuda
inception 1612
laterCapital Hamilton
laterEconomy maritime trade
privateering and commerce raiding
salt trade
shipbuilding
legalStatus Crown colony
self-governing colony
legislatureEstablished 1620
locatedIn Atlantic Ocean
Bermuda archipelago
North Atlantic Ocean
linked to: North Atlantic
oneOfFirst earliest permanent English colonies overseas
partOf British Empire
English colonial empire
presentDayEntity British Overseas Territory of Bermuda
relatedTo Colony of Virginia
Thirteen Colonies
religion Anglicanism
Protestantism
significantEvent Sea Venture shipwreck of 1609
sovereignState Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Great Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
linked to: United Kingdom
startTime 1609
strategicRole Atlantic convoy staging point
maritime outpost
naval base
usedFor Royal Navy operations
privateering
transatlantic shipping routes

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Third Charter of Virginia relatedTo Bermuda colony
Somers Isles Company governed Somers Isles colony
linked to: Bermuda colony
Somers Isles Company successorTerritory Crown Colony of Bermuda
linked to: Bermuda colony
English North America includedColony Bermuda (often administered with mainland colonies)
linked to: Bermuda colony