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
Mayflower
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Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
Mayflower at sea
Painting by Isaac Claesz Van Swanenburg of workers in Leiden's wool industry
Pilgrims John Carver, William Bradford and Myles Standish at prayer during their voyage to North America. 1844 painting by Robert Walter Weir.
Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower, docked at Plymouth, Massachusetts