Debts hopeful and desperate
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Chapters (101)
- Debts Hopeful and Desperate
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- 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
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources, Manuscript
- Primary Sources, Printed
- Secondary Sources
- Index of Personal Names
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