Bermuda colony

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English colony North Atlantic island colony overseas colony

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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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Crown Colony of Bermuda	1
Somers Isles colony	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English colony ⓘ North Atlantic island colony ⓘ overseas colony ⓘ
capital	St. George’s NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Kingdom of England ⓘ
earlyEconomy	tobacco cultivation ⓘ
ethnicComposition	English settlers ⓘ Native American slaves ⓘ enslaved Africans ⓘ
foundedBy	Virginia Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Company of London NERFINISHED ⓘ
foundingSettlement	St. George’s NERFINISHED ⓘ
governmentType	British colonial administration NERFINISHED ⓘ English colonial administration ⓘ
hasGovernor	Governor of Bermuda NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLegislature	House of Assembly of Bermuda NERFINISHED ⓘ
inception	1612 ⓘ
laterCapital	Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ
laterEconomy	maritime trade ⓘ privateering and commerce raiding ⓘ salt trade ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ
legalStatus	Crown colony ⓘ self-governing colony ⓘ
legislatureEstablished	1620 ⓘ
locatedIn	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Bermuda archipelago NERFINISHED ⓘ North Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ
oneOfFirst	earliest permanent English colonies overseas ⓘ
partOf	British Empire ⓘ English colonial empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
presentDayEntity	British Overseas Territory of Bermuda NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	Colony of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Thirteen Colonies NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism ⓘ Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
significantEvent	Sea Venture shipwreck of 1609 NERFINISHED ⓘ
sovereignState	Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	1609 ⓘ
strategicRole	Atlantic convoy staging point ⓘ maritime outpost ⓘ naval base ⓘ
usedFor	Royal Navy operations ⓘ privateering ⓘ transatlantic shipping routes ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Third Charter of Virginia → relatedTo → Bermuda colony ⓘ

Somers Isles Company → governed → Bermuda colony ⓘ

this entity surface form: Somers Isles colony

Somers Isles Company → successorTerritory → Bermuda colony ⓘ

this entity surface form: Crown Colony of Bermuda