The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
For my part, I’d rather discuss the far more important misconceptions most of us have about the Pilgrims: we tend to misunderstand why they came to America in the first place, how they saw themselves, and how they understood the celebration that we–not they–labeled the “First Thanksgiving.”
Why Did the Pilgrims Really Go to America? – Banner of Truth USA
Who Were the Pilgrims? In December 1620, the ship Mayflower dropped anchor in Plymouth Harbor. It carried over a hundred passengers from England and Holland, only half of whom would survive their first winter. The Plymouth colonists considered all of those who arrived in the colony’s start up years as “First Comers.”
These original settlers of Plymouth Colony are known as the Pilgrim Fathers, or simply as the Pilgrims. The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included...
Not only can many prominent Americans, from Julia Child to James Garfield, trace their lineage to the Pilgrims, but the Pilgrims also represented the beginnings of the future United States.
Mayflower, in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.
The Pilgrims were the first English colonists who established a permanent settlement in New England, which they called New Plymouth. They made the journey to the New World on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom and a new start.