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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.
Two early areas of settlement were Plymouth (c 1620) and Nantasket (c 1621). The Plymouth Colony began with the Mayflower's landing and is a well-known story. The Nantasket settlement followed soon after that of Plymouth. Roger Conant was at these two settlements before going north to Cape Ann.
There was constant warfare in the old world between good and evil, so there has been in the new world. The evil of Jamestown hs always been and is to-day at war with the good of Plymouth. Much of the trouble in the new world was caused in this way. In 1620, each colony planted a tree.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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". [2]
John Winslow (1597–1674) was one of several Winslow brothers who came to the Plymouth Colony in its earliest years. His brothers Edward and Gilbert were passengers on the Mayflower in 1620. John Winslow was a passenger on the Fortune in 1621, and two other brothers, Kenelm and Josiah, also settled in New England , arriving before 1632.