Articles related to "Thomas Weston"

Thomas Weston, a discontented Mayflower Company backer, founded Weymouth, MA, a failed venture meant to show the Pilgrims how to achieve commercial success.

The first Weymouth, Massachusetts settlers, facing starvation, Indian attacks and no leadership from colony founder Thomas Weston, scattered up and down the seaboard.

Before the Mayflower left Holland to sail into history, this adventure was ripe with problems and obstacles. Author, Nathaniel Philbrick, recounts the absorbing tale.

The birth of the New England form of town government may, ironically, be rooted in the failure of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' effort to colonize most of the American seaboard.