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On March 22, 1621, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony signed a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. Bradford surrendered the patent of Plymouth Colony to the freemen in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. He served as governor for 11 consecutive years, and was elected to various other terms before his death in 1657.
The treaty was nearly broken just a year after it was signed when Massasoit demanded Bradford, who had become governor of Plymouth after Carver's death, turn over Squanto to face Wampanoag justice. Bradford was reluctant to turn over the man who assisted so greatly in the colony's survival past the first winter and delayed until the point was ...
Plymouth Colony did not have a royal charter authorizing it to form a government, yet some means of governance was needed. The Mayflower Compact was the colony's first governing document, signed by the 41 Puritan men aboard the Mayflower upon their arrival in Provincetown Harbor on November 21, 1620. Formal laws were not codified until 1636.
Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers: who came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne" and the "Little James" in 1623 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006), listed biographies of all Fortune passengers - pages 105-131.
The death of Christopher Martin removed what might have been a source of future trouble in the life of Plymouth colony. [26] Christopher Martin was buried in the Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth. The burial place of his wife Mary was also Coles Hill Burial Ground. The family is memorialized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, Coles Hill, Plymouth.
From the landing on Plymouth Rock to the harmonious feast with the native Wampanoags, the story about the Pilgrims is rife with myth and inaccuracy. Pilgrim myths: Don’t believe everything your ...
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Stephen Hopkins (fl. 1579 – d. 1644) [2] was an English adventurer to the Virginia Colony and Plymouth Colony.Most notably, he was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636. [3]