The majority of colonists who came to America for religious freedom. Most of the Plymouth colonists practiced the Quaker religion.
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The pilgrims first settled in Plymouth. They were supposed to land in Virginia ,but there ship was blown off course by a storm so they settled in Plymouth which is in present-day state Massachusetts.
Plymouth Colony (or Plantation), the second permanent English settlement in North America, was founded in 1620 by settlers including a group of religious dissenters commonly referred to as the Pilgrims. Though theologically very similar to the Puritans who later founded the massachusetts-bay-colony, the Pilgrims believed that the Church of England could not be reformed. Rather than attempting to purifythe church, the Pilgrims desired a total separation
The first permanent settlers in New England were the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower. This group of people settled Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
Sudbury Was first settled in 1638, and incorperated in 1639. There were 54 settlers in Sudbury
I want to know who settled on Manhattan Island first , was it Robert Edwards from Gibraltar?