The Merchant Adventurers were the group of English investors whose capital funded the Pilgrims voyage on the Mayflower.  The joint-stock company they invested in hoped to make a profit from the fur trade, from fishing, and from any other method they could invent.  The number of investors was initially about fifty, but began to drop substantially as various internal disputes arose.  From a letter written in 1626, we learn the names of the remaining Merchant Adventurers.

A Joseph Tilden is listed among them.1441