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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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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

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

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd

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 Florence Choate

May 23, 1609, a new charter was granted to the company, constituting it a corporation entirely independent of the North Virginia or Plymouth Company.

From England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

The Plymouth Company had made no permanent settlement in its domain.

From The Fathers of New England A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Charles McLean Andrews

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