• Thumbnail for Plymouth Colony
    Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America...
    119 KB (14,385 words) - 19:02, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
    Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts (John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of...
    53 KB (6,147 words) - 06:27, 21 April 2024
  • fall of 1621 the Fortune was the second English ship destined for Plymouth Colony in the New World, one year after the voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower...
    15 KB (2,232 words) - 21:07, 21 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for William Bradford (governor)
    the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently...
    37 KB (4,222 words) - 07:46, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plymouth, Massachusetts
    feast. Plymouth served as the capital of Plymouth Colony from its founding in 1620 until the colony's merger with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691...
    76 KB (6,874 words) - 05:20, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plymouth Rock
    Plymouth Rock is the historical site of disembarkation of the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620. The Pilgrims did not refer...
    12 KB (1,365 words) - 14:58, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Massachusetts Bay Colony
    north of the previously established Plymouth Colony. The territory nominally administered by the Massachusetts Bay Colony covered much of central New England...
    80 KB (9,508 words) - 06:42, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Carver (governor)
    braved the Mayflower voyage in 1620 which resulted in the creation of Plymouth Colony in America. He is credited with writing the Mayflower Compact and was...
    13 KB (1,360 words) - 20:07, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of colonial governors of Massachusetts
    first permanent settlement was the Plymouth Colony (1620), and the second major settlement was the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Salem in 1629. Settlements that...
    35 KB (2,616 words) - 23:12, 27 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Alden
    Mayflower which brought the English settlers commonly known as Pilgrims to Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. He was hired in Southampton, England as the ship's...
    34 KB (4,027 words) - 11:33, 8 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Myles Standish
    Myles Standish (category Plymouth, Massachusetts)
    military officer and colonist. He was hired as military adviser for Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States by the Pilgrims. Standish...
    45 KB (5,570 words) - 18:11, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mayflower
    they considered a "new Promised Land", where they would establish Plymouth Colony.: 44  The Pilgrims had originally hoped to reach America by early October...
    58 KB (7,687 words) - 12:18, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for New England Colonies
    America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New...
    25 KB (2,398 words) - 07:29, 12 April 2024
  • 1674) was a Plymouth Colony fur trader, merchant, land purchaser and developer, Captain of the Plymouth Colony militia, Magistrate of the colony, and was...
    41 KB (4,796 words) - 22:20, 30 December 2023
  • Look up Plymouth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plymouth is a city in Devon, England. Plymouth may also refer to: Plymouth Colony, founded in North...
    4 KB (464 words) - 18:10, 23 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Plymouth Company
    profits made. The Plymouth Company established the one-year Popham Colony in present-day Maine in 1607, the northern answer to Jamestown Colony. Two ships,...
    7 KB (724 words) - 21:44, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plymouth County, Massachusetts
    county seats are Plymouth and Brockton. In 1685, the county was created by the Plymouth General Court, the legislature of Plymouth Colony, predating its...
    39 KB (2,242 words) - 17:18, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Winslow
    Edward Winslow (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    and also later at Plymouth Colony. Both Edward Winslow and his brother, Gilbert Winslow signed the Mayflower Compact. In Plymouth he served in a number...
    30 KB (3,600 words) - 23:01, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Province of Massachusetts Bay
    took effect on May 14, 1692, and included the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, the Province of Maine, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Nova Scotia...
    43 KB (5,122 words) - 02:45, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Cooke
    ship Mayflower, which arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact...
    17 KB (2,501 words) - 01:04, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Doane
    arrived in Plymouth Colony on an unknown ship sometime between 1628 and 1632. During his long life he is considered a person of note in Plymouth Colony serving...
    10 KB (1,553 words) - 14:52, 5 September 2023
  • other passengers when they left England on the Mayflower to settle in Plymouth Colony. In later years, he was an executive assistant and personal secretary...
    18 KB (2,248 words) - 03:42, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stephen Hopkins (merchant)
    signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636. He worked as a tanner and merchant and was recruited...
    31 KB (4,301 words) - 16:24, 5 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plymouth
    Pilgrims set sail for the New World from Plymouth, establishing Plymouth Colony – the second English colony in what is now the United States of America...
    176 KB (14,581 words) - 00:45, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)
    William Brewster (Mayflower passenger) (category People from Plymouth, Massachusetts)
    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...
    43 KB (3,806 words) - 06:11, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Swamp Fight
    December 19, 1675. The colonial militia from Plymouth Colony, Connecticut Colony, and Massachusetts Bay Colony were led to the main Narragansett settlement...
    23 KB (2,514 words) - 05:37, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Priscilla Alden
    Massachusetts's Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims and the wife of fellow colonist John Alden (c. 1599 – 1687). They married in 1621 in Plymouth. Priscilla was...
    10 KB (1,159 words) - 05:42, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Doty
    while trying to locate a suitable location for their settlement. In Plymouth Colony records, Doty's name was also spelled variously as Doten (Mayflower...
    18 KB (2,435 words) - 15:26, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Council for New England
    the establishment of the Plymouth Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, and the Province of Maine...
    7 KB (712 words) - 10:15, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Warren
    in 1626 another son, Joseph." In 1626, 27 Plymouth settlers, called Purchasers, were involved with the colony joint-stock company which afterwards was...
    19 KB (2,482 words) - 21:37, 18 April 2024