plantations

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SD Guthrie and Genting Plantations have flagged potential charges, he notes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Moses Brown was born in 1738 into a leading family in the British colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

The search is now centred on parts of Darwen Moor, Withnell Moor and the Roddlesworth Plantations.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

Plantations, by contrast, had a very different energy distribution: food webs in canopies were less rich and less complex, and food webs in the soil were also changed.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

In 1634 he went to England again on colonial business, and before sailing accepted a commission for the Bay Colony which required him to appear before the King's Commissioners for Plantations.

From The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day by Addison, Albert Christopher