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

It was the second enterprise of the kind undertaken in America, and was known as The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for All the British Plantations in America.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell