Plymouth Company

noun

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

Example Sentences

In 1614 he returned to America, but now to the northern region assigned to the Plymouth Company.

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After the disastrous failure of the Popham colony in 1608 the Plymouth Company for several years was inactive.

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To the Plymouth Company were granted in like manner the land and appurtenances between the forty-first and forty-fifth parallels.

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The Plymouth Company did business in a rather haphazard Way.

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Though the Plymouth Company had obtained exclusive grants and privileges, they never achieved any actual colony.

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