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The Plymouth Colony
- 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 World.
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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 ...
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Sep 16, 2019 · The Pilgrims’ plan was to establish a farming community in the New World where they would freely practice their religious beliefs but still have the protection and stability of the British government. My students loooove learning about the realities of life for boys and girls in Plimoth.
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 ...
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- Pilgrim Voices. By Peter Roop, Connie Roop. Though aimed at young readers and teens, this collection of diaries and other primary sources are an ideal starting point for those seeking to immerse themselves in the Pilgrims’ journey.
- Mayflower. By Nathaniel Philbrick. Nathaniel Philbrick has left a key mark in both histories of early America and in nautical history books. Mayflower, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is his exploration of both the Pilgrims’ trip to Massachusetts Bay Colony and their effects on the “New World” after their landing through King Philip’s War.
- Of Plymouth Plantation. By William Bradford. William Bradford penned this key narrative of the Pilgrims’ time in Plymouth. Although written in 1651, looking back at the years of struggle in Holland, England, and the New World, Bradford’s status as one of the respected leaders of the Pilgrims gives modern readers insight into the world as the immigrants encountered it.
- The Mayflower. By Rebecca Fraser. Fraser frames her exploration of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims through one family’s story, making a well-trodden tale come newly alive.
Plymouth Colony. / 41.8450; -70.7387. Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled by the passengers on the Mayflower at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by ...
- 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.
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 ...
