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The London-Virginia company administered the colony from 1606 until the company's dissolution in 1624. Mismanagement and financial loss were the primary reasons for the company's disbandment. However, wanting to keep the claims made James I of England placed the area under direct crown rule.
The neighboring Dutch colony of [[New Netherland]] experienced tremendous growth after it was [[History of New Netherland#
The boundaries between Spanish Florida and Virginia remained unclear throughout the rest of the 17th century. It was only in 1700 that the borders were settled in the resulting treaty of the [[History of Europe#Spanish Succession Crisis (1701)|Spanish Succession Crisis]] .
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