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Nov 26, 2020 · The story of the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony is well known regarding the basic facts: they sailed on the Mayflower, arrived off the coast of Massachusetts on 11 November 1620, came ashore at Plymouth Rock, half of them died the first winter, and the survivors established the first successful colony in New England.
- Joshua J. Mark
- 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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Mar 11, 2024 · Pilgrims in Colonial America, a Quick Summary of New England’s Founding Fathers. The Pilgrims were a group of English colonists who emigrated to New England and established Plymouth Plantation — or Plymouth Colony — in 1620. Many of the Pilgrims were Puritan Separatists, who sought religious freedom. They were joined on their journey to ...
- Randal Rust
Voyage of the. Mayflower. The Mayflower was hired in London, and sailed from London to Southampton in July 1620 to begin loading food and supplies for the voyage--much of which was purchased at Southampton. The Pilgrims were mostly still living in the city of Leiden, in the Netherlands. They hired a ship called the Speedwell to take them from ...
Nov 18, 2020 · Pilgrims boarding the Mayflower for their voyage to America. The Pilgrim’s arduous journey to the New World technically began on July 22, 1620, when a large group of colonists boarded a ship ...
- Dave Roos
Nov 13, 2020 · As the Pilgrims’ economic prospects further dimmed with the collapse of the wool market, the onset of the Thirty Years’ War in Europe and the imminent end of a 12-year truce between Spain and ...
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 ...
