#PLYMOUTH PILGRIMS FOR FREE#
The other strangers were mainly indentured servants who would pay off the cost of the journey by working for free for a period of time.They included the colony’s military leader Myles Standish, the shipboard governor Christopher Martin, and a veteran called Stephen Hopkins.The Merchant Adventurers had recruited ‘the strangers’ to help the colonists prepare for the journey and the founding of the colony.The passengers included the congregation from Leiden and a group of people known as ‘the strangers’.Captain Reynolds would lead them till Southampton, England where they would be met by Captain Christopher Jones on a ship called Mayflower.After several difficulties in finalizing the contract, the Pilgrims finally set out for their journey on a ship called Speedwell in July 1620.Though the Pilgrims had received an offer to live in New Netherland, they rejected it because they did not want to live according to the Dutch culture.According to the patent, the place they were to move to lay at the mouth of the Hudson River and they borrowed money from the Merchant Adventurers to finance their transport.Plymouth Company was a joint-stock company founded by James I of England. After speaking with several people, the Pilgrims were able to secure a land patent from the Plymouth Company in June 1619.This event spread fear among the Pilgrims and they decided to move far away from Europe.They wanted to arrest him for his controversial writings against the Anglican Church and the King of England.In 1618, William Brewster, another leader of the congregation, escaped arrest by the English authorities.Their escape from England did not stop the English Crown from pursuing them in the Netherlands.They found that they could not keep up with the culture even though their children were able to learn the language and find jobs in the Dutch army.Their village in England was mainly agricultural whereas their new home Leiden was primarily industrial based.In the Netherlands, it was easy to practice their religion as they wished to but they faced many difficulties in assimilation as the Dutch culture was foreign to them.They first arrived in Amsterdam and then moved to Leiden. As a result, the congregation fled to the Netherlands to save themselves and their families.Their homes were attacked and many of them were put behind bars by Archbishop Tobias Matthew in 1607. While they lived in the English village of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire they had begun to face religious persecution from the Crown.The group consisted of 40% single adults and 56% family units. William Bradford, an English Puritan Separatist from Northern England led the congregation of the Pilgrims.The Plymouth Rock marks the site where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower Voyage. The American festival of Thanksgiving is rooted in the history of the Plymouth Colony.Many of their social and legal systems were related to their religious practices and included several English customs.Their purpose behind moving to America was to be able to practice their faith as they preferred.The Pilgrims were not seeking economic success like the other colonial settlers, they fled England to escape the religious atrocities inflicted on them by the English Crown.A lot of American folklore contains the people and the events related to the Plymouth Colony.Though the colony of Plymouth existed for a very short time, it has a very big influence on the History of America.It was called the Province of Massachusetts Bay thereafter. The colony was combined with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 after King Philip’s War.A member of the Patuxet tribe called Squanto also helped them out. The Chief of Wampanoag called Massasoit played a key role in successfully establishing a treaty between the settlers and the native tribes.After Jamestown in Virginia, the Plymouth Colony was the second English venture that became successful in America.They wanted the Church of England to become fully reformed and be more Protestant.
They opposed the influence of Roman Catholicism in England.The settlers who founded the Plymouth Colony were Puritan Separatists, they are also known as the Brownists or the Pilgrims.The location where the Plymouth Colony settled is large in southeastern Massachusetts.The Americas were inhabited by the indigenous people who are today known as Native Americans.During the Age of Discovery, the Americas were found by European explorers and many European Powers wanted to establish their colonies there.It is sometimes spelled as Plimouth Colony. Between 1620 to 1691 the English explorers formed a colony in America called the Plymouth Colony.
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