Place
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Town in Massachusetts; the site of the English settlement of 1620, called Patuxet by the Wampanoag.
- Also known as
- Plymouth, Patuxet
- Wikidata
- Q326295
Connections 5
location of
- Agreement of 1621 between Plymouth and the Pokanoket Scholarship & press 1
-
Epidemics of the 1610s
Primary record
2
Bradford says it fell “in all these parts” about three years before the English came; he names no disease.
- Harvest feast of 1621 Scholarship & press 3
- National Day of Mourning According to United American Indians of New England Scholarship & press 45
headquarters of
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Scholarship & press 6
Proof 6 sources
-
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.
-
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
wherin thousands of them dyed, they not being able to burie one another; ther sculs and bones were found in many places lying still above ground
of this place, & scarce any left alive besids him selfe
-
You Are The Historian, Unit 4: 1621 Harvest Celebration, Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
Scholarship & press
There is only one English eye-witness account of the 1621 harvest feast and no contemporary Wampanoag historical records to suggest their perspective on the event.
-
National Day of Mourning, United American Indians of New England.
Self-published
Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday.
-
You Are The Historian, Unit 5: Giving Thanks, Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
Scholarship & press
For many Wampanoag people, Thanksgiving is a day of mourning.
-
You Are The Historian, Unit 1: Patuxet, Plimoth Patuxet Museums.
Scholarship & press
Plymouth, MA
Page history 1 change
- Add 55 stories, each checked against its sources96e92fe6
Something wrong or missing? Tell us, with a source, or edit this page.