The colony founded by the
Pilgrims that formed
Plymouth Colony or Plymouth Plantation was one of the first permanent English settlements, along with Jamestown in Virginia, in what became the United States.
William Bradford's
Of Plymouth Plantation is a remarkable work by a man who himself was something of a marvel. It remains one of the most readable seventeenth-century American books, attractive to us as much for its artfulness as for its high seriousness, the work of a good storyteller with intelligence and wit.
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Background Information
Plymouth was the first Puritan colony in Massachusetts, founded by the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic in 1620 in the Mayflower. The Pilgrims were those members of the Puritan community who voyaged across the Atlantic in the Mayflower to find a new life of religious freedom.
