Many people believe the Plymouth Pilgrims found Massachusetts, landed, and immediately started building a colony. In fact, the colony was not started until 6 weeks after land was first spotted. This episode covers those six weeks as the Pilgrims explore these new lands and choose the place to build Plymouth.
For the episode on Verrazanno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jpLSEU2X1Q
Read “Of Plimouth Plantation”: https://www.amazon.com/Plymouth-Plantation-Modern-English/dp/1720937567/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Of+Plimouth+Plantation&qid=1623594189&sr=8-3
Read Mourt’s Relation by Edward Winslow: http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/mourt1.html Winslow
Image Courtesy By School of Robert Walker - From the collection of the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1398857
Read the Mayflower Compact: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp
