“The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children. Their object was to plant a colony on the shores of the Hudson; but after having been driven about for some time in the Atlantic Ocean, they were forced to land on that arid coast of New England which is now the site of the town of Plymouth.” MORE
Not quite true. The pilgrims landed on Cape Cod first and struggled through the first winter there. But the gay Indians in Provincetown held gay pride parades that labeled the puritans as homophobic so the pilgrims uprooted and moved on to Plymouth.
Or something like that.
Apparently, some of my relatives who arrived in about 1640 got accused of sorcery / witchcraft and were executed in Salem, Mass. This, of course, explains my clean disposition of wanting to cleanly blow heads clean off – in a clean fashion, of course.
Such courage to sail across the Atlantic on those 1640 state of the art wessels. The food, the diseases, the crowding, the stale water. The rewards or the imagined rewards must have been great to do such a thing.
My ancestors came over 40 yrs later from Normandy to Quebec, but dont hold that against me.
My ancestors drove from Indiana to California…in a PLYMOUTH!
My ancestors arrived about 70 years later, on Staten Island.
I’m a descendant of Richard Warren.
I didn’t know I was a murderous colonizer. 🙃
If they could see into the future to 2008, they’d have keep sailing.
One branch of my ancestors arrived here in the mid 1700s from the Netherlands, and, as loyalists, they were politely asked to get the fuq out.
They moved to New Brunswick and eventually saw the error of their ways and moved to Maine.
The other branch was involved in the forced march to Quebec from Deerfield Mass. after the Indian (feathers not dots) massacre in that settlement during the second wave of the French and Indian wars, after which, as loyalists, they, too, were politely asked to get to fuq out, also, moving to New Brunswick.
So……Here I am……..
I’ve seen the New England area a bunch of times. I don’t think it’s arid, like a desert. There is lots of water, trees, and rocks. It was probably overrun with game when the first settlers arrived in 1620.
“Of Plymouth Plantation” was the journal kept by William Bradford, starting in about 1607 while The Separatists were still in Leiden, Netherlands and continuing until about 1645. I first read it in college. It was not easy due to the archaic English, but a modernized version is available on Amazon. I recommend ti for any history buffs.
“My ancestors drove from Indiana to California…in a PLYMOUTH!” LOL
My ancestors drove from IL and MN to CA. The make of car has been lost in the mists of time. I left CA for good in 1979 with Jim and our first son.
@Tony R and Meat Loaf Fan – Maybe they drove…Like a Bat Outta Hell???
The Spaniards had already been in what is now Texas for 101 years.
When in Plymouth, I once drove a Titleist 270 yards.
Don’t believe me? I was golfing with the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems. He’ll vouch for me.
PHENRY
Was GWB in your 4some as well?