Providence Island Company
id:
providence-island-company-218-2772319
title:
Providence Island Company
text:
The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritan investors including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island in the Caribbean and on the Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua. English settlers were sent to the colonies to run plantations. The colonies also functioned as a base for privateers operating against Spanish ships and settlements in the region. Col
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Island_Company
date created:
2006-06-16T10:32:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T07:07:07Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q2990065","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2990065"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/The_Puritan_by_Augustus_Saint-Gaudens_-_Springfield%2C_Massachusetts_-_DSC02513.JPG","width":2847,"height":4169}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15