Re:Some Notes (Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth) (Score 1)

Roanoke actually wasn't funded by a corporation. Sir Walter Raleigh was given a charter by the Crown to settle Roanoke using only his own funds. (It failed miserably, as you pointed out.)

Jamestown was funded by a corporation since, at the time, there weren't many people in England who had the money to finance a colony by themselves. And Jamestown certainly had its share of problems. The managers of the corporation stayed in England to run things while the colonists came to Virginia (just like point 1). Does the rule in absentia have anything to do with their troubles? Hard to say. It's a good possibility, at least.

The founders of Plymouth, on the other hand, were able to ensure that their corporation's managers (and their charter) came with them to the New World. So they were able to prevent (for the most part) interference from England.

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