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New England. Products. Cash crops, timber. The Plymouth Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of Plymouth, was a company chartered by King James in 1606 along with the Virginia Company of London with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of America between latitudes 38° and 45° N. [1]
Plymouth Company, commercial trading company chartered by the English crown in 1606 to colonize the eastern coast of North America in present-day New England. Its shareholders were merchants of Plymouth, Bristol, and Exeter. Its twin company was the more successful Virginia Company. The Plymouth Company established a colony on the coast of ...
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Feb 25, 2023 · The Plymouth Company, or Virginia Company of Plymouth, was chartered in 1606 by King James to colonize the east coast of America between latitudes 38° and 45° N. They established the Popham Colony in Maine in 1607 but it was abandoned in 1608. The company was revived in 1620 and reorganized as the Plymouth Council for New England, which stopped operating in 1624. The Council for New England ...
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Plymouth Company. (also called Virginia Company of Plymouth), organized 1606 by King James I of England to establish colonies in North America between 38° and 45° N. latitude; settled colony at mouth of Kennebec River 1607, abandoned it 1608; reorganized as Plymouth Council for New England 1620; Plymouth Company was the n. branch of a joint ...
Jan 7, 2022 · Footnote 17 To understand the political space of the commercial world the MBC entered, as well as the godly New England its members wished to create, it is necessary to briefly discuss this Plymouth Company. The Plymouth Colony was established in 1620, when the Nonconformists aboard the Mayflower landed in New England. That immortalised band of ...
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Sep 28, 2016 · The Plymouth Company, which consisted of 70 investors, had an agreement with the settlers of the Plymouth Colony, the pilgrims, promising to finance their trip to North America and in return the settlers would repay the company from profits made by harvesting supplies, such as timber, fur and fish, which were then sent back to England to be sold.
