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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 .
The single volume contains revised sketches of the immigrants who came to the Boston area during the first year of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ISBN 9780880822824. The great migration directory: immigrants to New England, 1620-1640: a concise compendium (NEHGS, 2015). This is a list of all known immigrants during the entire project period ...
8 October – Cádiz expedition: Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth for Cádiz. 1–7 November – Cádiz expedition: English forces are decisively defeated by the Spanish and the expedition is abandoned. [1] 9 December – The Netherlands and England sign the Treaty of Den Haag. [4] An English colony is established in Barbados. [4]
It is said that history repeats itself. We do not claim that it does; but there is a similarity between the first colony of the old world and the first colonies of the new world. The first colony of the old world was established in the Garden of Eden where good and evil existed and the evil caused the down-fall of man; so it was in the new world.
King James I and Charles I made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy who had been alienated by the lack of change in the Church of England.Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity, as opposed to the episcopal polity of the Church of ...
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.
Colonial settlement of the shores of Massachusetts Bay began in 1620 with the founding of the Plymouth Colony. [4] Other attempts at colonization took place throughout the 1620s, but expansion of English settlements only began on a large scale with the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 and the arrival of the first large group of Puritan settlers in 1630. [5]