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Debts Hopeful and Desperate

by Ruth A. McIntyre

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Acknowledgments
  3. 3Foreword
  4. 4Part I — Financing the Plymouth Colony
  5. 5They Obtain a Patent and Seek Financial Backing
  6. 6Some London Merchants Offer to Invest in the Colony
  7. 71620 — Pilgrims and Merchants Form a Joint Stock Company
  8. 8Despite Difficulties and Controversy, the Colonists Set Sail
  9. 9Contrary to Their Patent, the Pilgrims Settle at Plymouth
  10. 10New Plymouth Struggles With Hardship and Debt
  11. 11Quarrels Develop Among the London Merchants
  12. 12The Joint Stock Company Breaks Up
  13. 13The Pilgrims Agree to Purchase the Merchants’ Interests in the Company
  14. 14The London Investors Were Linked by Common Associations
  15. 15Part II — The Colony Looks to the Fur Trade to Pay Its Debts
  16. 161645 — Plymouth’s Debts “Hopeful and Desperate” at Last Are Discharged
  17. 17Bibliography
  18. 18Primary Sources, Printed
  19. 19Secondary Sources

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