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1 day ago · The Plymouth Company founded the Popham Colony on the Kennebec River, but it was short-lived. The Plymouth Council for New England sponsored several colonization projects, culminating with Plymouth Colony in 1620 which was settled by English Puritan separatists, known today as the Pilgrims.
1 day ago · The Pilgrims‘ Journey. The story of Plimoth Plantation begins with the Pilgrims, a group of English Protestants who sought religious freedom and a better life in the New World. In September 1620, 102 passengers set sail from Plymouth, England aboard the Mayflower, a small merchant ship not originally intended for a transatlantic crossing.
4 days ago · Miles Standish, a military officer hired by the Pilgrims, played a crucial role in the early years of the Plymouth Colony. He is best known for his leadership, defense strategies, and diplomacy with Native American tribes.
7 hours ago · Standish, an early colonist who came over on the Mayflower, was the military leader of Plymouth Colony. Leaders of the de-naming effort, including psychology lecturer Anna Ward, accused Standish ...
3 days ago · Still, the Plymouth Colony, by itself, wrought no nobler or better work for mankind than the unnoticed, almost unnamed colonists who founded New Hampshire. Massachusetts Bay settlers, the Puritans, eclipsed the humbler efforts of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
4 days ago · After a tortuous 66-day voyage from England, the Pilgrims reached the mainland of America 400 years ago today, on Nov. 11. This historic event marked the beginning of a new chapter in American history and set the stage for the founding of the Plymouth Colony.
5 days ago · Plimoth Plantation, founded in 1947, is a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA that attempts to replicate the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by English colonists who later became known as the Pilgrims.
