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The star marks the approximate location of the Plymouth Colony. Plymouth Rock commemorates the landing of the Mayflower in 1620. Continuing westward, the shallop's mast and rudder were broken by storms and the sail was lost. They rowed for safety, encountering the harbor formed by Duxbury and Plymouth barrier beaches. They remained at this spot ...
Plymouth Colony (sometimes spelled 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.
George Morton – historically famous to Plymouth Colony by being revealed as the author (possibly with William Bradford and Edward Winslow) of Mourt’s Relations, a manuscript of life and times from the earliest colony days, published in England in 1622. Morton was of York or Nottinghamshire in the north of England.
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, painting by William Halsall (1882). This is a list of the passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
An advance team of 60 settlers arrived at the Plymouth Colony in May 1622 aboard the Sparrow, an English fishing vessel which was sailing to the coast of Maine.The team traveled the final 150 miles (240 km) down the New England coast in a shallop with three members of the Sparrow's crew. [6]
In Plymouth Colony, Brewster was Ruling Elder of the Plymouth Church until his death in 1644 at age 80. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Isaac Allerton - A Leiden Separatist and Merchant Adventurer originally from London who boarded the Mayflower with his wife and three children.
Tisquantum (/ t ɪ s ˈ k w ɒ n t əm /; c. 1585 (±10 years?) – November 30, 1622 O.S.), more commonly known as Squanto (/ ˈ s k w ɒ n t oʊ /), was a member of the Patuxet tribe of Wampanoags, best known for being an early liaison between the Native American population in Southern New England and the Mayflower Pilgrims who made their settlement at the site of Tisquantum's former summer ...
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.