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    The Council for New England was a 17th-century English joint stock company to which King James I awarded a royal charter, with the purpose of expanding...
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    Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts (John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of...
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    Plymouth (/ˈplɪməθ/ PLIH-məth) is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers...
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    experiences of winter in the Plymouth Colony. In 1623, the Plymouth Council for New England (successor to the Plymouth Company) established a small fishing...
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  • Plymouth Council could refer to: Plymouth City Council, England Plymouth Council for New England, North America Plymouth Council (Boy Scouts of America)...
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    Plymouth City Council is the local authority for Plymouth, a unitary authority with city status in the ceremonial county of Devon, England. The council...
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    of disuse, the Plymouth Company was revived and reorganized as the Plymouth Council for New England with a new charter, the New England Charter of 1620...
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    officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. The region was subsequently divided through further grants...
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    shores of Cape Cod Bay at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The colonists acquired a land grant from the Plymouth Council for New England in 1621, but its early governance...
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  • first colony in New England was Plymouth Colony, established in 1620 by the Puritan Pilgrims who were fleeing religious persecution in England. A large influx...
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  • grant from the Plymouth Council for New England in 1630 to lands then under control of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. The province was named for his mother, Cicely...
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    of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut Colony, Province of New York...
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    Virginia Company of Plymouth was replaced by a royal charter for the Plymouth Council for New England, a joint-stock company established to colonize and govern...
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    abandoned by 1637. Renews, founded in 1615, abandoned in 1619 Plymouth Council for New England Plymouth Colony, founded 1620, merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony...
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    known as "America's Hometown". Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Mayflower Pilgrims, where New England was first established. It is...
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  • English explorer Capt. Francis West was named admiral of the Plymouth Council for New England to advise him, along with another English explorer and naval...
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    begun for an under-company that would become the Somers Isles Company). This was followed, in 1620, with the Pilgrims establishing the Plymouth settlement...
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    city of Plymouth, in Devon, from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. The New Plymouth District, which includes New Plymouth City and...
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  • List of governors of Acadia (category Governors of New France)
    claims to the territory under the 1620 charter granted to the Plymouth Council for New England, there was no English settlement of the territory under its...
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    previously established Plymouth Colony. The territory nominally administered by the Massachusetts Bay Colony covered much of central New England, including portions...
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  • London merchant and ironmonger. He was associated with the Plymouth Council for New England which had funded the short-lived Popham Colony in Maine 15...
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    Indian Archer weathervane. In 1631, the Plymouth Council for New England granted two merchants from Bristol, England, Robert Aldsworth and Gyles Elbridge...
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    Plymouth is a rural town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States, in the White Mountains Region. It has a unique role as the economic, medical...
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    Council to legitimize its settlement, though it maintained political independence under the Mayflower Compact. The Plymouth Council for New England made...
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    about 1500 acres by the Plymouth Council for New England which had jurisdiction, granted by the King, over all of New England. Ownership passed through...
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    Devonport (/ˈdɛvənpɔːrt/ DEV-ən-port), formerly named Plymouth Dock or just Dock, is a district of Plymouth in the English county of Devon, although it was...
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    The 2024 Plymouth City Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Plymouth City Council in England. It coincided with local elections...
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    Stratton Island in Saco Bay off Scarborough's shore. In 1631, the Plymouth Council for New England granted the "Black Point Patent" to Captain Thomas Cammock...
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    Ferdinando Gorges (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales)
    naval and military commander and governor of the important port of Plymouth in England. He was involved in Essex's Rebellion against the Queen, but escaped...
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    Squanto (category Native Americans connected with Plymouth Colony)
    the report by the Plymouth Council for New England in 1622, Tisquantum was in Newfoundland "with Captain Mason Governor there for the undertaking of...
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