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Painting by Bernard Gribble showing Pilgrim Fathers and families boarding small boats at a busy harbor to board the Mayflower, with the large ship anchored nearby. Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact Map showing the present-day state of Massachusetts with colonial boundaries highlighted for the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1629) and Plymouth Colony (1630). Indigenous groups such as the Mohican, Pocumtuc, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Wampanoag, and Nauset are labeled in their respective regions. Key colonial settlements like Boston, Salem, and Plymouth are marked, and a red arrow indicates the Pilgrims' 1620 route to Cape Cod Bay. The map is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and features major bays including Massasoit meeting English settlers
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Article revised and updated. Oct 16, 2026
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Sep 18, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Heritage History - The Pilgrim Fathers. Jun 18, 2026
Add new Web site: Heritage History - The Pilgrim Fathers. Apr 09, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - In Our Time - The Pilgrim Fathers. May 15, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Pilgrim fathers: harsh truths amid the Mayflower myths of nationhood. Mar 08, 2024
Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Pilgrim Fathers. Dec 21, 2023
Add new Web site: American History Central - The Pilgrims and Pilgrim Fathers in Colonial America. Jul 14, 2023
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Pilgrims. Apr 10, 2022
Corrected display issue. Jan 31, 2020
Add new Web site: Colonial America - Pilgrim Fathers. Jun 15, 2019
Add new Web site: Pilgrim Hall Museum - Beyond the Pilgrim Story - Plymouth Rock. Sep 01, 2017
Add new Web site: Pilgrim Hall Museum - Beyond the Pilgrim Story - Plymouth Rock. Sep 01, 2017
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Channel - Pilgrims, Provincetown and Plymouth. Feb 21, 2017
Add new Web site: PBS - The American Experience - The Pilgrims. Nov 18, 2016
Add new Web site: PBS - The American Experience - The Pilgrims. Nov 18, 2016
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - The Pilgrim Fathers. May 29, 2014
In the opening sentence, deleted space before the comma. Mar 25, 2009
Media added. Jan 14, 2009
Added new Web site: World Wide School - John Quincy Adams: Oration at Plymouth, in Commemoration of the Landing of the Pilgrims. Oct 05, 2006
Added new Web site: World Wide School - John Quincy Adams: Oration at Plymouth, in Commemoration of the Landing of the Pilgrims. Oct 05, 2006
Article revised. Feb 08, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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