They consisted of: Joint-Stock colonies, Proprietary colonies, and Royal colonies. Joint-Stock colonies were founded when a group of investors received a grant of land or charter from the King to establish a colony where the investors would divide the profits from the tobacco and other products extracted from the colony. ... Most of the Joint-Stock and Proprietary colonies weren't very successful because there was hardly any control over the people who populated them. ...

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