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The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts (John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon).
- The Mayflower Voyage. The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church.
- The Mayflower Compact. Rough seas and storms prevented the Mayflower from reaching their initial destination in Virginia, and after a voyage of 65 days the ship reached the shores of Cape Cod, anchoring on the site of Provincetown Harbor in mid-November.
- Settling at Plymouth. After sending an exploring party ashore, the Mayflower landed at what they would call Plymouth Harbor, on the western side of Cape Cod Bay, in mid-December.
- The First Thanksgiving. The native inhabitants of the region around Plymouth Colony were the various tribes of the Wampanoag people, who had lived there for some 10,000 years before the Europeans arrived.
Nov 13, 2020 · The Pilgrims were not religious refugees, but economic migrants who sought to improve their lives in the New World. They were financed by a joint-stock company, faced hardships and competition, and eventually merged with other colonies.
Nov 26, 2020 · Learn about the pilgrims' clothing, ship, destination, and more in this article that challenges some common myths and misconceptions. Discover how the pilgrims were Puritan separatists who fled England and the Netherlands, and how they interacted with the Native Americans and other colonists.
- Joshua J. Mark
- The two ships were the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Speedwell was supposed to carry passengers and the Mayflower only cargo but the Speedwell l...
- The Natives at the First Thanksgiving were members of the Wampanoag Confederacy headed by the chief Massasoit. No primary source supports the claim...
- No. Many of the citizens of Plymouth Colony were Anglicans who were just looking to make a new start in North America.
- No. The citizens of the Plymouth Colony actually wore brightly colored clothing. They only wore black on the sabbath and on days of religious obser...
Oct 26, 2020 · The Plymouth Colony (1620-1691) was the first English settlement in the region of modern-day New England in the United States, settled by the religious Separatists known as the “pilgrims” who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower in 1620, fleeing religious persecution, to establish a settlement where they could worship freely in the New Wo...
- Joshua J. Mark
- The Plymouth Colony is the first successful English settlement established in New England in 1620. It survived only through the help of Native Amer...
- The Plymouth Colony lasted from 1620-1691 after which it was absorbed by the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- The Plymouth Colony is famous for many things but, mainly, the so-called First Thanksgiving in the New World.
- The Plymouth Colony honored their treaty with the Native Americans of the Wampanoag Confederacy until after the deaths of the initial leaders of bo...
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Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Protestant Separatists initially known as the Brownist Emigration, who came to be known as the Pilgrims. The colony established a treaty with Wampanoag Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure its success; in this, they were aided by Squanto, a member of the Patuxet tribe.
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.
