Plymouth Rock - Wikipedia
Plymouth Rock is the historical disembarkation site of the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known written reference to the rock dates from 1715 when it was described in the town boundary records as "a great rock of all the rocks".
List of Mayflower passengers - Wikipedia
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.
Plymouth Colony ‑ Location, Pilgrims & Thanksgiving | HISTORY
Dec 18, 2009 · In September 1620, during the reign of King James I, a group of around 100 English men and women—many of them members of the English Separatist Church later known to history as the Pilgrims—set...
Plymouth Colony - Wikipedia
The settlers of Plymouth Colony fit broadly into three categories: Pilgrims, Strangers, and Particulars. The Pilgrims were a Puritan group who closely followed the teachings of John Calvin, like the later founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony to the north.
Plymouth Rock | Geology, Legend, History, & Facts | Britannica
Plymouth Rock, granite slab upon which, according to tradition, the Pilgrim Fathers stepped first after disembarking from the Mayflower on December 26, 1620, at what became the colony of New Plymouth, the first permanent European settlement in New England.
Plymouth | Rock, Massachusetts, Colony, Map, History, & Facts
Nov 15, 2024 · Plymouth Rock, first identified in 1741, became a symbol of freedom in 1774 when it was split by being dragged to Liberty Pole Square in pre-Revolutionary agitation. It now rests on its original waterfront site under a portico of granite.
Plymouth Colony - World History Encyclopedia
Oct 26, 2020 · The Plymouth Colony (1620-1691) was the first English settlement in the region of modern-day New England in the United States, settled by the religious Separatists known as the “pilgrims” who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower in 1620, fleeing religious persecution, to establish a settlement where they could worship freely in the ...
History of the Plymouth Colony - ThoughtCo
Nov 17, 2020 · After sending an exploratory party ashore, the Mayflower docked near Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts on December 18, 1620. Having sailed from the port of Plymouth in England, the Pilgrims decided to name their settlement Plymouth Colony.
The Plymouth Rock - ArcGIS StoryMaps
Dec 13, 2020 · To some Plymouth Rock is just a rock, but to historians and to American patriots the rock represents much more. To those people, Plymouth Rock is a memorial in honor of the Pilgrims in order to pay homage to their journey and mark the landing place of the first permanent settlement in America.
3a. The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony - US History
The 102 travellers aboard the Mayflower landed upon the shores of Plymouth in 1620. This rock still sits on those shores to commemorate the historic event.