In 1732 Oglethorpe secured a charter for his colony in what became Georgia.
Orange was named in 1822 for William, prince of the royal Dutch House of Orange, who helped the colonists secure a charter in 1689.
From Egypt on Tuesday, the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations affiliate, secured a charter plane to fly 174 Bangladeshis back to Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, and found other plane seats for nearly 100 Vietnamese.
In addition to Edison, seven other organizations in New York State submitted proposals, including Victory Schools, a Manhattan company that this fall will run three charter schools in New York City and on Long Island, and Boys Harbor Inc., a nonprofit Harlem group that last year tried and failed to secure a charter school license from state authorities.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Aaron Burr, who would later become the third Vice-President of the United States, secured a charter and millions of dollars in financing to establish the Manhattan Company, which promised to tap clean drinking water for New York City.
The move from Connecticut followed a lengthy and sometimes frustrating effort to find resources and secure a charter.
During the 1820s, prospective bankers found that they were more likely to be able to successfully secure a charter if the bank were part of a larger business.
In 1766, several clergymen secured a charter from New Jersey's Royal Governor William Franklin for the creation of Queen's College, now Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey "for the education of youth in the learned languages, liberal and useful arts and sciences, and especially in divinity; preparing them for the ministry and other good offices".
The founders used the manufacturing company, which produced chemicals such as blue vitriol, alum, nitric acid, camphor and saltpeter, as well as medicines, paints, and dyes as a means to securing a bank charter from the New York State legislature.
When the bank's federal charter finally expired, Biddle secured a state charter from Pennsylvania to keep the bank operating.
