Plymouth Company
Americannoun
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Those who felt reform could only be achieved outside the established church were Separatists, and from their number came the Pilgrim "saints" of the Plymouth Company.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, like the Plymouth Company, the new company proved defective in co-operative power, and the first actual settlement of New England was due to an influence little fancied by any of its members.
From England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
The Mayflower Compact%.—Since it was then the 11th of November, the Pilgrims, as they are now called, decided to get permission from the Plymouth Company to remain permanently.
From A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster
On the 11th they decided to find some place of abode in this neighbourhood, anticipating no difficulty in getting a patent from the Plymouth Company, which was anxious to obtain settlers.
From The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske
In 1628, therefore, some of the leading Puritans formed a trading company and, having bought a tract of land in America from the Plymouth Company, sent out settlers to occupy it.
From American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur Fisk Gordy
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