Plymouth Company

Examples of Plymouth Company in the following topics:

• The Coming of the English

  • Financed by the Muscovy Company, Martin Frobisher set sail in 1576, seeking the Northwest Passage.
  • The Plymouth Company was given the northern portions, and the London Company was given the southern portions.
  • The Northern Plymouth settlement in Maine faltered and was abandoned.
  • However, the London Virginia Company created the first successful English overseas settlements at Jamestown in 1607.
  • This map illustrates the 1606 grants by James I to the London and Plymouth companies.

• Settling the Southern Colonies

  • Charles I eventually granted proprietary charters to the Plymouth Company and the London Company.

• Virginia

  • James granted a proprietary charter to two competing branches of the Virginia Company: the Plymouth Company and the London Company.
  • In 1606, each company organized expeditions to establish settlements within the area of their rights.
  • The London Company sent its expedition in December of 1606 and came ashore at the Chesapeake Bay, an event which has come to be called the "First Landing."
  • The London Company sent supply ships to the colony three times, but these were sometimes delayed and left the colonists with little in the way of food and supplies.
  • Simultaneously, however, Virginia was declared a "crown colony," meaning the charter was transferred from the Virginia Company to the Crown of England, making Jamestown a colony now run by the English monarchy.

• Conclusion: Growth and Development of the Colonies

  • Another stream, this one of pious Puritan families, sought to live as they believed scripture demanded and established the Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, New Haven, Connecticut, and Rhode Island colonies of New England.
  • After Roanoke Colony failed in 1587, the English found more success with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and Plymouth in 1620.
  • The Virginia Company of London founded Jamestown with the express purpose of making money for its investors, while Puritans founded Plymouth to practice their own brand of Protestantism without interference.

• The Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Plans for the first permanent British settlements on the east coast of North America began in late 1606, when King James I of England formed two joint stock companies.
  • The owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company founded the colony.
  • In 1624, the Plymouth Council for New England established a small fishing village at Cape Ann.
  • In 1621, the Wampanoag, led by Massasoit, concluded a peace treaty with the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
  • In the 1630s, the Puritans in Massachusetts and Plymouth allied themselves with the Narragansett and Mohegan people against the Pequot, who had recently expanded their claims into southern New England.

• The Habit of Self-Government

  • In a self-governing colony such as Plymouth, elected rulers make most decisions without referring to the imperial power that nominally controls the colony.
  • This type of government was seen in Plymouth Colony between 1630 and 1684.
  • The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
  • The Mayflower was originally bound for the Colony of Virginia, financed by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London.
  • In 1620, the Mayflower Compact became the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.

• Plymouth

  • The Puritans founded Plymouth in order to practice their own brand of Protestantism without interference from England.
  • Therefore, in 1620, the Pilgrims moved on to found the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts.
  • The governor of Plymouth, William Bradford, was a separatist, a proponent of complete separation from the English state church.
  • Different labor systems in Plymouth and other Puritan New England colonies distinguished them from the Chesapeake colonies to the south.
  • In their first winter in the new land, over half of the population of Plymouth died of scurvy and harsh conditions.

• English Colonies

  • The business venture was financed and coordinated by the London Virginia Company, which was a joint stock company looking for gold.
  • One group sailed on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
  • After drawing up the Mayflower Compact, in which gave themselves broad powers of self-governance, they established the small Plymouth Colony.

• Exploration and Conquest of the New World

  • In the north, the Hudson Bay Company actively traded for fur with the indigenous peoples, bringing them into competition with French, Aboriginal, and Metis fur traders.
  • The company came to control the entire drainage basin of Hudson Bay, which they called Rupert's Land.
  • Another stream, this one of pious Puritan families, sought to live as they believed scripture demanded and established the Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, New Haven, Connecticut, and Rhode Island colonies of New England.

• From New Netherland to New York

  • In 1609, Henry Hudson, an English explorer, was hired by the Flemish Protestants running the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam to find a northeast passage to Asia.
  • The Dutch West India Company had introduced slavery in 1625.
  • When the colony fell, the company freed all its slaves, establishing early on a nucleus of free blacks.
  • Unlike Plymouth, Jamestown, and other colonies, New Jersey was populated by a secondary wave of immigrants who came from other colonies instead of those who migrated directly from Europe.