The Kilvayne Corporation traces its origins back to the 1700's, when Henry James Kilvayne traveled to the Colony of New York from Britain, and established a shipping company in the City of New York. The Kilvayne Shipping Company owned a fleet of merchant ships that would carry trade goods from the colonies to Britain, where they would be made into consumer products and sold to markets throughout the world. They lasted through the American Revolution, and soon the Company was shipping American made products to the world at large.