Plymouth Company

noun

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

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

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

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

The Plymouth Company did business in a rather haphazard Way.

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

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