Debts Hopeful and Desperate
by Ruth A. McIntyre
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About this eBook
- Author
- McIntyre, Ruth A.
- Title
- Debts hopeful and desperate : Financing the Plymouth Colony
- Original Publication
- United States: Plimoth Plantation, Inc., 1963.
- Credits
- Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F001: United States local history: New England
- Subject
- Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 70625
- Release Date
- April 23, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Debts Hopeful and Desperate
- 2.Contents
- 3.Acknowledgments
- 4.Foreword
- 5.PART I Financing the Plymouth Colony — The Pilgrims decide to emigrate to America — They obtain a patent and seek financial backing — Some London merchants offer to invest in the colony — 1620—Pilgrims and merchants form a joint stock company — Despite difficulties and controversy, the colonists set sail — Contrary to their patent, the Pilgrims settle at Plymouth — New Plymouth struggles with hardship and debt — Quarrels develop among the London merchants — The joint stock company breaks up — The Pilgrims agree to purchase the merchants’ interests in the company — The London investors were linked by common associations
- 6.PART II Plymouth Reorganizes Financially — The colony looks to the fur trade to pay its debts — Three London merchants agree to continue as Plymouth’s partners — The Pilgrims encounter difficulties in the fur trade — Plymouth obtains a new patent to protect its trading rights — Plymouth’s business agent is dismissed for a “conflict of interest” — The colony and its London partners dispute over their accounts — The London partners quarrel among themselves — Through arbiters, Plymouth and London reach a financial settlement — 1645—Plymouth’s debts “hopeful and desperate” at last are discharged
- 7.Notes
- 8.Bibliography — Primary Sources, Manuscript — Primary Sources, Printed — Secondary Sources
- 9.Index of Personal Names
- 10.Transcriber’s Notes
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