Category: History - American
The Pilgrims decide to emigrate to America § They obtain a patent and seek financial backing § Some London merchants offer to invest in the colony § 1620--Pilgrims and merchants form a joint stock company § Despite difficulties and controversy, the colonists set sail § Contrar...
The Pilgrims decide to emigrate to America § They obtain a patent and seek financial backing § Some London merchants offer to invest in the colony § 1620--Pilgrims and merchants...
2. Part II 47The Colony looks to the fur trade to pay its debts § Three London merchants agree to continue as Plymouth’s partners § The Pilgrims encounter difficulties in the fur trade § Ply...
3. PART IOf the motives which prompted the founding of New Plymouth, the search of the members of John Robinson’s little English congregation at Leyden for an assured religious freedom w...
4. PART IIThe method devised for repaying what was a stiff debt for the young colony, as one writer puts it, “shows considerable business ingenuity.” With ownership transferred from Londo...