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Question

I need to find out the year that Plymouth Colony was founded, who founded it, and the main reason for founding it.

Answer 1

Colony founded by the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December, 1620. Many of the 102 passengers who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower died. The survivors formed the Plymouth Colony. They faced great hardship but made friends with neighboring Native Americans. Among the leaders of the Plymouth Colony were William Bradford, John Carver, William Brewster, and Miles Standish.

Answer 2

here is some basic info and a couple of links that give greater detail:

Plymouth Colony, America's first permanent Puritan settlement, was established by English Separatist Puritans in December 1620. The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom, or simply to find a better life. After a period in Holland, they set sail from Plymouth, England, on Sept. 16, 1620, aboard the Mayflower, its 102 passengers spending 65 days at sea. Passengers, now known as the Pilgrim Fathers, included leader William Brewster; John Carver, Edward Winslow, and William Bradford, early governors of Plymouth Colony; John Alden, assistant governor; and Myles Standish, a professional soldier and military advisor. The Mayflower dropped anchor near present-day Provincetown on Nov. 21, 1620, and 41 male passengers signed the Mayflower Compact, an agreement to enact "just and equal laws for the general good of the colony." The Pilgrims finally landed at the site of present-day Plymouth, Mass., on Dec. 26, 1620.

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Answer 3

Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 until 1691. At its height, the colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of the modern state of Massachusetts.

Founded by a group of Separatists known as the Pilgrims, the colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest significant colonies to be founded by the English in North America, and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the region known as New England.

The core group was a congregation of Separatists from the town of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire, England. Leaders of this church included pastor John Robinson, church elder William Brewster and a young William Bradford, later governor of Plymouth Colony. After the Hampton Court Conference, when King James I declared Puritans and Separatists to be undesirables, the congregation began to feel the pressures of religious persecution. After the Bishop of York raided and imprisoned several members of the church in 1607, they left England and settled in Leiden, The Netherlands.

Despite being in a foreign country, they were not free from the persecutions of the English Crown. They wanted to create their own society in the New World in which they would be able to escape religious persecutions. The Pilgrims obtained a land patent from the London Virginia Company in June, 1619 to settle at the mouth of the Hudson River.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

It was founded December 1620

Answer 7

the pilgrims decided to get the colonies in the mid to late 1600's. they wanted to settle in there own territory because of the king of engalnd,he wasnt giving them their own right to do anything

Answer 8

Since I see that you have internet access, why not go to google and get the answer there. . .or Wikipedia?