Plymouth Company

American  

noun

1. a company, formed in England in 1606 to establish colonies in America and that founded a colony in Maine in 1607.

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Example Sentences

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 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner

In the summer of the same year, 1606, Henry Challons took two ships of the Plymouth Company round by the West Indies, where he was caught in a fog by the Spaniards.

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry

In fact there was a neck-and-neck race between the Plymouth Company and the Dutch West India Company, for the control of the northern province.

From Days of the Discoverers by Choate, Florence

The land in New England was taken over boldly and arbitrarily by the directors of the Plymouth Company, the most powerful of all the companies which exploited New England.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers