Project Gutenberg 2023-04-23 Public domain in the USA. 223 McIntyre, Ruth A. 65084750 Debts hopeful and desperate : $b Financing the Plymouth Colony $aUnited States :$bPlimoth Plantation, Inc., $c1963. Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Debts Hopeful and Desperate: Financing the Plymouth Colony" by Ruth A. McIntyre is a historical account written in the mid-20th century. The book examines the financial struggles and complexities faced by the Plymouth Colony and its founders, detailing their relationships with various London investors and their attempts to manage debts incurred during the establishment of the colony. It delves into the roles of prominent figures like William Bradford and the challenges they encountered as they sought to secure funding and navigate the business side of colonization. At the start of the book, the author introduces the motivations of the Pilgrims, who sought both religious freedom and economic stability when they decided to emigrate to America. The opening provides a backdrop of their life in Leyden, where economic hardships intensified their desire to find new opportunities in the uncharted territories of the New World. The text emphasizes the significance of financial partnerships with London merchants, who had varying degrees of sympathy for the Pilgrims' mission. As the narrative unfolds, the initial enthusiasm for establishing Plymouth inevitably gives way to mounting challenges, including disputes over financial agreements, navigating trade routes, and the amalgamation of personal and collective interests—all of which lay the groundwork for the broader story of Plymouth's history and the Pilgrims' enduring legacy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/debtshopefuldesp00mcin/page/n5/mode/2up 20220211112029mcintyre 1963 US Reading ease score: 61.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 F001 Text Category: History - American Category: Economics 237430 2025-06-28T05:22:22.115717 text/html 227637 2023-04-23T04:07:35 text/html 1699387 2025-06-28T05:22:30.422648 application/epub+zip 1698517 2025-06-28T05:22:24.960694 application/epub+zip 235015 2025-06-28T05:22:22.926693 application/epub+zip 2078888 2025-06-28T05:22:33.523670 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2047713 2025-06-28T05:22:28.651627 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 181039 2025-06-28T05:22:21.388679 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 180807 2023-04-23T04:07:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17694 2025-06-28T05:22:33.661598 application/rdf+xml 19414 2025-06-28T05:22:23.208651 image/jpeg 3064 2025-06-28T05:22:23.067655 image/jpeg 67404 2023-04-23T04:07:36 application/octet-stream application/zip 2104952 2023-04-23T04:07:36 application/octet-stream application/zip 2256825 2025-06-28T05:22:22.158653 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog