The first Pilgrims, sailing from England on the Mayflower, landed in what would become Plymouth , Massachusetts, on December 22nd, 1620. The Plymouth colony was among the first permanent English settlements in North America, following Newfoundland, located in present-day Canada, and Jamestown, farther south in present-day Virginia. Though the colony would eventually merge with other settlements, including the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the 1691 creation of the larger Province of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth has remained an early American emblem of religious and political freedom, with their radical branch of Calvinist Christianity influencing their implementation of democracy in the New World.
Map of Plymouth, Mass., 1910, George H. Walker