 Thomas Prence came to Plymouth Colony on the ship "Fortune" in November 1621 as a single man.In the 1623 division of land, Prence is named as "holder of one akre of land".The Plymouth Colony had been founded as a joint venture between separatists, religious separatists and a group of "merchant adventurers", who underwrote much of the cost of the colony's establishment in exchange for a share of its profit-making activities.