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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 village of Scrooby, England, c. 1911, home of the Mayflower Pilgrims until 1607. Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Brownists (a sect of English Protestant dissenters) who came to be known as the Pilgrims.
According to the History Channel, the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts in November of 1621. While the traditional story says the Pilgrims shared a feast ...
According to the myth, the Pilgrims left England on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. [2]: 7-8 [3] Although the settlers did include the Separatists, who wanted to break away from the Church of England, other members of the community had travelled to the New World for largely financial reasons, rather than religious reasons. [4] [5]
Until that trip to New England, we had no idea that Provincetown was the real site of the Pilgrims’ first landing in 1620, not Plymouth Rock. Haynes: Tour gives insight into Pilgrims' landing ...
The frontispiece of Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622. The booklet Mourt's Relation (full title: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England) was written between November 1620 and November 1621, and describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor ...
Once the solemn blessings are over, start up the fun with these Thanksgiving games! 2. A Thanksgiving to God, For His House by Robert Herrick. Lord, ’tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land,
Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Mayflower Pilgrims, where New England was first established. It is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States. [5] The town has served as the location of several prominent events, one of the more notable being the First Thanksgiving feast.