Dorchester Company of Adventurers

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 501 words | Copyright

Dorchester Company of Adventurers, joint stock company which attempted to establish a permanent fishing and farming colony on Cape Ann (1623). The organizers, who included John White, were identified with the Puritan party, but had no intention of establishing a Puritan refuge. When their colony failed, the settlers came under the temporary rules of John Endecott, but were reorganized as the New England Company for a Plantation in Massachusetts Bay, which became the Massachusetts Bay Company.

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