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Colonial America: Plymouth Colony 1620 – A short history of Plymouth Colony hosted at U-S-History.com, includes a map of all of the New England colonies. The Plymouth Colony Archive Project Archived 2013-03-04 at the Wayback Machine – A collection of primary sources documents and secondary source analysis related to Plymouth Colony.
The Bradford journal records the events of the first 30 years of Plymouth Colony, as well as the reactions of the colonists to those events, and it is regarded by historians as the preeminent work of 17th century America.
The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon.
Attempted colony at Sagadahoc fails. 1608 – Founding of Quebec City by Samuel de Champlain. 1609–10 – The Starving Time at Jamestown. [1] 1609 – Henry Hudson explores the Hudson River. 1611–16 – Thomas Dale and Thomas Gates serve as Governor of Virginia. 1614 – Peace between the Virginia colony and the Powhatan Confederacy.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 May 2024. Mayflower passenger and New World colonist John Carver 1st Governor of Plymouth Colony In office November 1620 – April 1621 Preceded by Office established Succeeded by William Bradford Personal details Born before 1584 England Died April 1621 Plymouth Colony Resting place Cole's Hill Burial ...
Scripps News headed to Plymouth to learn about the immigrant history of the Thanksgiving dinner.
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".
Early settlements and boundaries of the Plymouth Colony. In 1641, the Plymouth Colony (at the time separate from the Massachusetts Bay Colony) purchased from the Indians a large tract of land which today includes the northern half of East Providence (from Watchemoket to Rumford), Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Seekonk, Massachusetts, and part of ...