Debts Hopeful and Desperate
Reading edition
Financing the Plymouth Colony
by Ruth A. McIntyre
PLIMOTH PLANTATION
© Plimoth Plantation, Inc., 1963
The publication of this study was made possible through a grant to Plimoth Plantation by the partners of Hornblower and Weeks in memory of their senior partner RALPH HORNBLOWER who died at Plymouth September 18 1960
“For had not you and we joined and continued together, New England might yet have been scarce known, I am persuaded; not so replenished and inhabited with honest English people as now it is. The Lord increase and bless them....” An extract from a letter written in 1633 by James Sherley, London merchant, to Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony.