The Mayflower Pioneers: The Hardships They Encountered

[Effete Snob]

4. Faith doesn't pay the bills

They were fronted money as an investment on which they were supposed to produce a return. They fucked their creditors and financial backers, who didn’t give a hoot about their insane intolerant religious ideas. D’jever wonder why the Netherlands was “oppressive” to them? It’s because the Dutch tolerated other religions and the Pilgrims didn’t want their children raised in that kind of environment.

Pretty sure the Plymouth Company is explained in lots of places. They didn’t pay cash to charter the Mayflower.

How the trip was financed, and their default on their obligations, is basic history.

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/plymouth-colony-history/

“ The Plymouth Company was a joint stock company founded in 1606 by King James I with the goal of establishing settlements along the east coast of North America.

Who Settled Plymouth Colony?

The Plymouth Company, which consisted of 70 investors, had an agreement with the settlers of the Plymouth Colony, the pilgrims, promising to finance their trip to North America and in return the settlers would repay the company from profits made by harvesting supplies, such as timber, fur and fish, which were then sent back to England to be sold.”

The key word there being “promising”.


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/what-you-didnt-know-about-the-pilgrims-they-had-massive-debt

What you didn’t know about the pilgrims: They had massive debt

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They were this continent’s first deadbeats who believed they had a religious entitlement to avoid their financial obligations.