Plymouth Colony
Mayflower passengers' destination
Plymouth Colony was the English settlement established by the Pilgrims in present-day Massachusetts in 1620.
The colonists arrived on the Mayflower and founded one of the first permanent European settlements in New England.
The colony is associated with the first Thanksgiving and the Mayflower Compact, an early form of self-governance.
Plymouth merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691.
- PilgrimsPlymouth's founding English colonists
- Mayflower1620 colonial transport vessel
- Atlantic crossingSea voyage between continents
- WampanoagAlgonquian-speaking northeastern tribe
- King Philip's WarColonial-indigenous New England conflict
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