Dorchester Company

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Dorchester Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company involved in early colonial ventures, particularly in New England.

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Label Occurrences
Dorchester Company canonical 3
Plymouth Company 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English joint-stock company
activeInCentury 17th century
activity financing colonial settlements
overseas colonization
basedIn Dorchester, Dorset, England
surface form: Dorchester, Dorset
charteredBy English authorities
country Kingdom of England
economicActivity Atlantic fisheries
fur trade
historicalRole pioneer of organized English settlement in New England
industry colonial ventures
influenced formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company
involvedIn early English colonization of New England
legalForm joint-stock company
organizedBy Puritan clergy
Puritan merchants
preceded Massachusetts Bay Company
primaryRegionOfActivity New England
purpose to establish fishing and trading operations in New England
to support Puritan settlement in New England
religiousOrientation Puritan
sponsored colonial expeditions to New England
early settlements in the Massachusetts region
status defunct
timePeriod early 1600s

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Dorchester Company fishing outpost foundedBy Dorchester Company
Ferdinando Gorges associatedWith Dorchester Company
this entity surface form: Plymouth Company