The Plymouth grantees had a primary interest in the northern area that Captain John Smith would later name New England, and there they established a colony at Sagadahoc in August 1607, only a few weeks after the settlement of Jamestown.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
The municipal council successfully insisted that the original royal instructions to the governor required all grantees to occupy their estates in person.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
In one district, forty-seven thousand Indians were divided among fifty-six grantees.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson