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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 .
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.
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 ...
The Puritans in England first sent smaller groups in the mid-1620s to establish colonies, buildings, and food supplies, learning from the Pilgrims' harsh experiences of winter in the Plymouth Colony. In 1623, the Plymouth Council for New England (successor to the Plymouth Company) established a small fishing village at Cape Ann under the ...
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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]
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]