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  2. Plymouth Colony - Wikipedia

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    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 Captain John Smith.

  3. Plymouth, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Plymouth (/ ˈ p l ɪ m ə θ / ⓘ PLIM-əth; historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town and county seat of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown".

  4. Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) - Wikipedia

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    The star marks the approximate location of the Plymouth Colony. Plymouth Rock commemorates the landing of the Mayflower in 1620 Continuing westward, the shallop's mast and rudder were broken by storms and the sail was lost.

  5. Myles Standish - Wikipedia

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    In April 1622, the vanguard of a new colony arrived in Plymouth. They had been sent by merchant Thomas Weston to establish a new settlement somewhere near Plymouth. The men chose a site on the shore of the Fore River in Weymouth, Massachusetts, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Plymouth, and they called their colony Wessagusset.

  6. Plimoth Patuxet - Wikipedia

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    Plimoth Patuxet is a complex of living history museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts founded in 1947, formerly Plimoth Plantation.It replicates the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by the English colonists who became known as the Pilgrims.

  7. Council for New England - Wikipedia

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    The location of the Plymouth Colony settlement is demarcated as "Pl". "Q" and "R" refer to Quebec and Port Royal, which were contemporaneous French settlements. The Council for New England was a 17th-century English joint stock company to which James I of England awarded a royal charter , with the purpose of expanding his realm over parts of ...

  8. Plymouth Rock - Wikipedia

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    Plymouth Rock is the historical disembarkation site of the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known written reference to the rock dates from 1715 when it was described in the town boundary records as "a great rock of all the rocks".

  9. Myles Standish Burial Ground - Wikipedia

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    The site was the location of Duxbury's first meeting house. [1] It was in use from approximately 1638 until 1789 at which point the cemetery was abandoned. It was reclaimed in 1887 by the Duxbury Rural Society , generating a widespread interest in locating the resting place of Duxbury's most famous colonist, Myles Standish.