John Robinson (pastor)
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John Robinson (1576–1625) was the pastor of the "Pilgrim Fathers" before they left on the Mayflower. He became one of the early leaders of the English Separatists called Brownists, and is regarded as one of the founders of the Congregational Church.
Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert Walter Weir (commissioned 1837; placed 1844), oil on canvas, 12 x 18 feet, United States Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC; Robinson is depicted leading them in prayer
St Andrew's Church, Norwich
The Pieterskerk, Leiden by Johannes Bosboom
Gainsborough United Reformed Church (the John Robinson Memorial Church)
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
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The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Pilgrims' leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownists, or Separatists, who had fled religious persecution in England for the tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands.
The Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1857) by American painter Robert Walter Weir at the Brooklyn Museum
Memorial to the departure of congregation members for Holland in 1609, at Immingham on the southern bank of the Humber estuary
Permission from the city council of Leiden, allowing the Pilgrims to settle there, dated February 12, 1609.
Contemporary depiction of the Pilgrims leaving Delfthaven aboard the Speedwell by Adam Willaerts. c. 1620