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The Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1857) by American painter Robert Walter Weir at the Brooklyn Museum. 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 ...
- 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.
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Nov 15, 2023 · The term “Pilgrims” is used to describe the 102 English settlers who set out for the New World in 1620 on the Mayflower. Many of them were fleeing from religious persecution they faced at home. Upon their arrival, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts.
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Nov 13, 2020 · After departing England in 1608, the Pilgrims found sanctuary in the Dutch city of Leiden, where they were free to worship and enjoyed “much peace and liberty,” according to Pilgrim Edward ...
Oct 26, 2020 · Definition. 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 ...
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- What is the Plymouth Colony?The Plymouth Colony is the first successful English settlement established in New England in 1620. It survived only through the help of Native Amer...
- How long did the Plymouth Colony last?The Plymouth Colony lasted from 1620-1691 after which it was absorbed by the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- What is the Plymouth Colony famous for?The Plymouth Colony is famous for many things but, mainly, the so-called First Thanksgiving in the New World.
- Did the Plymouth Colony honor their treaty with the Native Americans?The Plymouth Colony honored their treaty with the Native Americans of the Wampanoag Confederacy until after the deaths of the initial leaders of bo...
Mar 11, 2024 · The Pilgrims were a group of English colonists who emigrated from England to present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. They sailed to the New World on a ship called the Mayflower. When the ship left Plymouth, England, there were 102 passengers. 49 of them were from the Puritan Separatist congregation in Leiden, Netherlands who sought ...
Rebecca Beatrice Brooks July 22, 2018 1 Comment. The pilgrims were passengers on board the Mayflower who settled Plymouth Colony in 1620. The group were some of the first puritans to settle in North America during the Great Puritan Migration in the 17th century. The success of Plymouth colony later paved the way for other Puritans to settle ...
