![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover it was economically attractive for many to leave the arduous textile industry, and build up a new life and home by cultivating new lands in North America. The Mayflower first landed at the tip of Cape Cod, in what is now Provincetown. The religious legacy of the memorable voyage in the fall of 1620. The Mayflower didnt land in Plymouth first. The establishment of a private colony to which they could retreat and where they could sustain their pure faith community became an increasingly enticing solution. Religious Motivation of the Mayflower Pilgrims. Most Pilgrims had little trouble integrating into this dynamic, multicultural society, and as a result their leaders feared that the group would eventually lose its religious and cultural identity. Assailed by storms during its two-month-long Atlantic crossing, the Mayflower landed at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620. Upon arrival in Leiden, they could immediately start working in the city’s textile industry – among the largest in Europe at the time. Who Were the Original Pilgrims The pilgrims of the Mayflower were a group of around 100 people seeking religious freedom from the Church of England. The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America by Rebecca Fraser. The Mayflower pilgrims were the most extreme kind of reformers. Most of the roughly hundred Pilgrims who found refuge in Leiden had previously lived off small-scale agriculture in England. Johnson is the author of two history books, The Mayflower and Her Passengers and Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins, Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor and Mayflower Pilgrim, and is the creator of the website. In 1620 a group of these radical refugees left for America as Pilgrims and founded Plymouth Colony there. On 12 February 1609 the city government of Leiden granted 100 English religious refugees permission to settle in Leiden. The Mayflower Pilgrims: In 1620, after years of sacrifice and hardship, they arrived on the shores of the New World in a tiny ship, they carried in their. ![]()
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