Organization
Plymouth Colony
English colony founded at Plymouth in 1620.
- Dates
- 1620–1691
- Wikidata
- Q126195
- Active 1620–1691
- headed by William Bradford (Governor) Apr 1621 – 1650
Connections 7
headed by
- William Bradford Apr 1621 – 1650 Governor Primary record 1
involved in
- Agreement of 1621 between Plymouth and the Pokanoket governor John Carver Scholarship & press 2
- Great Swamp Fight sent men to a force of about 1,000 Primary record 3
- Harvest feast of 1621 hosts Primary record 4
- King Philip’s War condemned 110 men, women and children to “perpetual servitude and slavery” and authorized their sale, 1676 Primary record 35
authored
- Plymouth certificate of 1676 9 Aug 1676 Scholarship & press 5
influenced by
- Tisquantum (Squanto) According to William Bradford Primary record 1
Timeline 3 dates
- 1620–1691 Plymouth Colony
- Apr 1621 – 1650 William Bradford head of Plymouth Colony
- 9 Aug 1676 Plymouth Colony authored Plymouth certificate of 1676
Proof 5 sources
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Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' (Commonwealth of Massachusetts print of 1898; superscripts such as “ye” are flattened in this text), William Bradford (text via Project Gutenberg).
Primary record
William Bradford who was elected Governor of New Plymouth in April 1621 and continued Governor thereof from that date excepting between the years 1635 and 1637 up to 1650
in which servise Squanto stood them in great stead, showing them both ye maner how to set it, and after how to dress & tend it.
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You Are The Historian, Unit 2: Leadership and Diplomacy, Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
Scholarship & press
The Pokanoket sachem, Ousamequin - also known to history as Massasoit - made an agreement with John Carver, the English governor of Plymouth Colony, on March 22, 1621.
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King Philip's War (1675 - 1678), Roger Williams National Memorial, National Park Service.
Primary record
These men came from the United Colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Hartford.
By the 1670s, the purchasing of Indian land by the English and a series of hostile incidents resulted in King Phillip’s War.
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A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth: Mourt’s Relation (A Relation or Journal of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth, 1622), ed. Dwight B. Heath, Project Gutenberg, from the 1622 original, 1622.
Primary record
Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors
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Certificate from Josiah Winslow, Governor of the Colony of Plymouth issued to Thomas Smith, 9 August 1676, Massachusetts Historical Society, 9 Aug 1676.
Scholarship & press
The captives were convicted of assisting Sachem Metacom to resist British rule in the colony of Plymouth, as well as committing "Many inhumaine Crueltyes and injuryes" on British subjects.
The certificate authorizes Capt. Thomas Smith of the ship Seaflower to transport and sell the captives.
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