Providence Island Company Providence Island Company The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island and Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua. Providence Island was discovered during 1629 by Daniel Elfrith. Elfrith passed its location to Philip Bell who was governor of the Somers Islands; Bell mentioned it to Nathaniel Rich. Rich then involved the Earl of Warwick, his family connection, who called a meeting for 10 November 1629, at Brooke House in Holborn,
Bonin Islands entirely different islands. On 12 September 1824 American Captain James Coffin in the "Transit" first visited the southern group of islands ("Coffin Islands"). He visited the archipelago again in 1825 but this time he arrived at the middle group of islands ("Beechey Group"). In September 1825, the British whaling ship "Supply" landed in the southern Bailey Group of islands. In 1826, another British whaler, the "William", arrived at Beechey Island. Whaling ships called on a regular basis, for water and turtles, before continuing their voyages. In 1827 Captain F. W. Beechey of reached the island chain and claimed them as