About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 145. Chapters: Jamaica, The Bahamas, New Netherland, Bermuda, Suriname, Jamestown, Virginia, Barbados, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Jamestown Settlement, Montserrat, Roanoke Colony, Rupert's Land, Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Plymouth Colony, Province of New York, Antigua, Colony of Virginia, Mosquito Coast, Cuttyhunk, Province of New Jersey, Province of Maryland, Connecticut Colony, Gardiners Island, Henricus, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland, English Tangier, Province of Carolina, Province of Pennsylvania, Popham Colony, New Haven Colony, Delaware Colony, Cambriol, Tortola, Renews-Cappahayden, Anegada, Bristol's Hope, Newfoundland and Labrador, Saybrook Colony, British Leeward Islands, Providencia Island, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, Run, Virgin Gorda, New Albion, South Falkland. Excerpt: Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth, or Plymouth Bay Colony) was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. The settlement, which served as the capital of the colony, is today the modern town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. At its height, Plymouth Colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of the modern state of Massachusetts. Founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region. Aided by Squanto, a Native American of the Patuxet people, the colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success. It played a central role i...
