Providence Island Company
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The Providence Island Company was an English chartered company. It was founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (whose title gave name to Warwick, Rhode Island which is in the vicinity of another Providence) in order to settle Providence Island, off what became Nicaragua, as a base for privateering. It also provided support to the Parliamentarians in the build-up to the English Civil War.
From 1631 - 1635, the Company exploited an English colony on Tortuga (also called Association Island), near Haiti.
The treasurer of the Providence Island Company was John Pym.
In 1642, Providence Island was captured by Spain, and the company declared bankruptcy, being disbanded in 1650.
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[edit] Sources and references
- WorldStatesman - Haiti
- Karen Kupperman, Providence Island 1630 - 1641: The Other Puritan Colony, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- The Penguin Dictionary of British and Irish History, ed. Juliet Gardiner
