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Disobedient clergy were replaced, and prominent Separatists were confronted, fined, and imprisoned. He is credited with driving people out of the country who refused to attend Anglican services. [9] [10] William Brewster was a former diplomatic assistant to the Netherlands.
The Pilgrims were not the first Europeans in the area. John Cabot 's discovery of Newfoundland in 1497 had laid the foundation for the extensive English claims over the east coast of America. [ 12 ] Cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi made one of the earliest maps of New England c. 1540 , but he erroneously identified Cape Breton with the ...
Pilgrims John Carver, William Bradford, and Miles Standish, at prayer during their voyage to North America. 1844 painting by Robert Walter Weir. According to the Mayflower passenger list, just over half of the passengers were Puritan Separatists and their dependents.
In 1620, a group of Puritan separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, made their famous sea voyage on the Mayflower across the Atlantic to settle Plymouth Colony. They were led by governor William Bradford and church elder William Brewster. The Pilgrims were originally a part of the Puritan separatist movement in England.
The terms Brownists or Separatists were used to describe them by outsiders; they were known as Saints among themselves. [ 1 ] A majority of the Separatists aboard the Mayflower in 1620 were Brownists, and the Pilgrims were known into the 20th century as the Brownist Emigration.
6. Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620) Probably the most famous Pilgrim settlement in the United States, Plymouth was settled in December 1620 by a group of English separatists seeking religious ...
William Brewster (c. 1566/67 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. He became senior elder and the leader of Plymouth Colony, by virtue of his education and existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being a Brownist (or Puritan Separatist).
William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.