{"has_more":true,"total_items":14,"items":[{"vg_id":0,"journal":"These include the Dutch West India Company (Netherlands, chartered in 1621, settling parts of presentday New England)"},{"vg_id":0,"journal":"South Swedish Company (Sweden, chartered in 1626, settling along the Delaware River)"},{"vg_id":0,"published_date":1903,"journal":"After independence, Russia also used a corporation (the Russian-American Company, chartered 1799) to settle parts of present-day Alaska. 22 To be sure, the colonies routinely incorporated non-business corporations such as civic and philanthropic entities (i.e., towns and schools) as well as self-regulating guilds. By my count, however, there were only four business corporations. Two were failures and are discussed below","authors":[{"author_name":" Compagnie D'occident"}]},{"vg_id":0,"published_date":1917,"authors":[{"author_name":" Davis"}],"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.113692"}]}