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      • The explorer John Smith had named the area Plymouth after leaving Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The settlers decided the name was appropriate, as the Mayflower had set sail from the port of Plymouth in England.
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  2. Dec 18, 2009 · The explorer John Smith had named the area Plymouth after leaving Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The settlers decided the name was appropriate, as the...

  3. The earliest records of the name Plymouth date from around this time (as Plymmue in 1230, Plimmuth in 1234). Plymouth notably lent its name to the settlement of Plymouth, Massachusetts following the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers aboard the Mayflower in 1620, as well as many other settlements in North America. Early history

  4. 1689–1691. Preceded by. Succeeded by. Wampanoag. Dominion of New England. Province of Massachusetts Bay. 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.

  5. 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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  6. Jul 19, 2020 · Plymouth. city in Devon, England, named for its location at the mouth of the Plym River; the river is in turn named for Plympton, literally "plum-tree farm." Earlier Plymouth was known as Sutton Prior.

  7. Dec 17, 2020 · By Peter C. Mancall. December 17, 2020 11:00 AM EST. T his autumn marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of a hardy band of English religious dissenters at the Wampanoag town of Patuxet. The...

  8. Nov 26, 2020 · The citizens of the Plymouth Colony actually wore brightly colored clothing. They only wore black on the sabbath and on days of religious observance. They also never wore tall hats with buckles. The popular image of the Pilgrim of Plymouth Colony today did not appear until the 19th century.

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