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While still in the town of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, England, the congregation began to feel the pressures of religious persecution. The core group - roughly 40% of the adults and 56% of the family groupings was a congregation of religious separatists led by pastor John Robinson, church elder William Brewster, and William Bradford (1590-1657). Plymouth Colony was founded by permanent settlers who later came to be known as the "Pilgrims".

2.1 Early relations with the Native Americans.

1.5 Landings at Provincetown and Plymouth.

1.3 Prior exploration and death of Indians.

Despite the colony's relatively short history, it has become an important clue to what is "American." Many of the anecdotes and events surrounding Plymouth Colony have become part of American identity, including the tradition of Thanksgiving and the monument at Plymouth Rock. The social and legal systems of the colony were closely tied to strong religious beliefs. Rather than a commercial venture like Jamestown, its citizens sought freedom from religious persecution and a place to settle and worship God in a way they saw fit. Plymouth holds a unique role in American history as the beginnings of the nation's democratic culture through the Mayflower Compact.

The colony played a central role in King Phillip's War, one of the earliest and bloodiest of the Indian Wars. The colony agreed on a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success. At its height, the colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of the modern state of Massachusetts.įounded by a group of separatists who later came to be known as the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest colonies to be founded by the English in North America and the first sizable permanent English settlement in New England. Plymouth Colony (officially New Plymouth Colony sometimes called The Old Colony) was an English colony in North America from 1620 until 1691, when it was absorbed by its much larger neighbor, Massachusetts.