USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of English Puritans who came to be known as the Pilgrims. The core group (roughly 40% of the adults and 56% of the family groupings) were part of a congregation led by William Bradford.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plymouth, Massachusetts, (population 492, 066) was founded in 1620 by English settlers known as Separatists, who had fled England to establish a Utopian community where they could practice their religion freely. While on board the Mayflower, they established the rules for governing the new colony.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620 and the colonists began building their town. While houses were being built, the group continued to live on the ship.

Detailed explanation-4: -The town was founded by Pilgrims (Separatists from the Church of England) who, in their search for religious toleration, had immigrated first to the Netherlands and then to North America.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pilgrim Fathers, in American colonial history, settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first permanent colony in New England (1620).