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| Plymouth Colony | ||||||||
| English colony | ||||||||
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 Seal of Plymouth Colony
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 Map of Plymouth Colony showing town locations
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| Capital | Plymouth | |||||||
| Languages | English | |||||||
| Religion | Puritan, Separatist | |||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||
| Legislature | Plymouth General Court | |||||||
| History | ||||||||
| • | Established | 1620 | ||||||
| • | First Thanksgiving | |||||||
| • | Pequot War | |||||||
| • | King Philip's War | 1675–1676 | ||||||
| • | Part of the Dominion of New England | 1686–1688 | ||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1691 | ||||||
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Plymouth Colony was an English colony in North America. It existed from 1620 to 1691. At its height, Plymouth Colony occupied most of the southeastern part of the modern state of Massachusetts.
The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth. This settlement served as the capital of the colony. It is today the modern town of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Separatists and Anglicans (together, the "Pilgrims") founded the colony. With Jamestown and other settlements in Virginia Colony, it was one of the earliest successful English colonies in North America. It was the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region.
The colony made a treaty with Chief Massasoit. This helped to make the colony a success. The colonists played a role in King Philip's War. The colony merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other territories in 1691. Together they formed the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Plymouth holds a special role in American history. Many of the Plymouth colonists left England for a place to worship in their own way. The social and legal systems of the colony became tied to their religious beliefs, as well as English custom. Many of the people and events surrounding Plymouth Colony have become part of American folklore. These include Thanksgiving and Plymouth Rock.
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Title page of Captain John Smith's 1616 work A Description of New England, the first text to use the name "New Plymouth" to describe the site of the future colony
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"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe
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Portrait of King Philip, by Paul Revere, illustration from the 1772 edition of Benjamin Church's The Entertaining History of King Philip's War
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Benjamin Church: Father of American ranging
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John Robinson memorial, placed outside of St. Peter's Church in Leiden
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The Book of the General Laws of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth. Boston: Samuel Green, 1685
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1890 Map of Barnstable County, Massachusetts showing the location and dates of incorporation of towns
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Front page of William Bradford's manuscript for Of Plimoth Plantation
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New England Landing of the Pilgrims in 1620 on a stamp marking its 350th anniversary in 1970
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1863 letter from Sarah Josepha Hale to President Abraham Lincoln discussing the creation of a Thanksgiving holiday
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Plymouth Rock, inscribed with 1620, the year of the Pilgrims' landing in the Mayflower