More than $11 million had been invested in restoring Mayflower II, the reproduction ship that has floated in Plymouth Harbor since 1957. The town’s nonprofit living history museum-known since its 1947 founding as Plimoth Plantation-had spent considerable time and some expense rebranding itself Plimoth Patuxet Museums, to more accurately represent the link between the Pilgrims and the Native American tribe whose village they occupied. Later on in 1692, the colony became a part of Massachusetts.The good people of Plymouth, Massachusetts, had big plans for 2020, the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in New England. This brought the Pilgrims into conflict with the native Indians and the Plymouth colony lost thousands of men in the fight. The Pilgrims expanded significantly, occupying a large portion of land as more and more people came to live in the colony. The first group of Pilgrims also increased in size.īy 1656, there were thousands of people in the Plymouth colony. As the Pilgrims continued to live in Plymouth, more people arrived to occupy the colony. In 1621, William Bradford was chosen as the leader of the Pilgrims.įrom 1621 until 1656, he served as the governor of the Plymouth colony. The rest survived despite suffering from many diseases. Turning into a large colonyĭuring the first winter after their arrival, half of the Pilgrims died due to hunger, cold and starvation. The Indians provided them foodstuffs and later helped them grow corn so that the Pilgrims could grow their food on their own.
They were helped by the native Indians who already lived in the area.
Slowly, they built a settlement with a watchtower and houses but they still didn’t have enough food. Initially, they spent some time on the ship but later, they started venturing on the land to find some food. Here, they had no houses, no food and no one to take help from.
They reached modern-day Plymouth and anchored on the harbour. At first, two ships carrying the Pilgrims set sail from Netherlands but one of the ships was found to be leaking, so only one ship then sailed to America.Īfter a long journey of 65 days, the Pilgrims arrived in America in mid-November, 1620. So they persuaded a group of London investors to procure a ship for them and send them to America. They did this so that they could follow their own Church, stick to their English culture and not face any persecutions or problems. The most important purpose of the Pilgrims was to come to America and establish their own colony. Why did the Pilgrims Want to Settle in the New World? So they decided to sail across the seas and establish their own colony in the New World (American continent was called the New World). Here, they faced no persecution but they feared that they would lose their English cultural identity. As a result, they first moved away from England in 1607 and came to Netherlands. They didn’t follow the Church of England, so the King of England persecuted them. In the group of 102 people who were later called the Pilgrims, 35 were of the English Separatist Church. They left Europe in September 1620 and after travelling for 65 days, reached America in November 1620.
The total number of pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth to establish a new colony was 102. This colony they established at the present-day county of Plymouth in Massachusetts. The Mayflower was the famous ship that transported the Pilgrims from Plymouth to the ‘New World’ Now known as American in 1620, this ship carried around 102 passengers and there were also 30 crewe members, the passengers were also known as the first English Puritans to arrive in America. They are very famous because they were only the second ever group of English people who reached America and successfully established a new colony. The Pilgrims were a group of English people who left England behind and came to America in 1620.
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