Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
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"What did the Pilgrim Fathers come for, then, when they came so gruesomely over the black sea? Oh, it was in a black spirit. A black revulsion from Europe, from the old authority of Europe, from kings and bishops and popes. And more. When you look into it, more. They were black, masterful men, they wanted something else. No kings, no bishops maybe. Even no God Almighty. But also, no more of this new "humanity" which followed the Renaissance. None of this new liberty which was to be so pretty in Europe. Something grimmer, by no means free-and-easy."--"The Spirit of Place" (1923) by D. H. Lawrence |
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The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who came to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, named after the final departure port of Plymouth, Devon. Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownists, or Separatist Puritans, who had fled religious persecution in England for the tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands.
See also
- Capotain
- Mayflower Society
- National Monument to the Forefathers
- Pilgrim Hall Museum
- Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar
- Pilgrim Hill in Central Park in New York City has sitting on its crest the bronze statue of The Pilgrim, a stylized representation of one of the Pilgrims.
- Thanksgiving (United States)
- List of Mayflower passengers
- List of Mayflower passengers who died at sea November/December 1620
- List of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620–21
