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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Chapters: Pilgrim, Myles Standish, White Island Shores, Massachusetts, North Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth Colony, Mayflower, U.S. Route 44, Massachusetts Route 3, Massachusetts Route 3A, Quincy College, Plymouth Rock Studios, Narragansett Council, Myles Standish State Forest, Massasoit, Patuxet tribe, Squanto, Ellisville Harbor State Park, Samoset, Mayflower II, Plymouth Center, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Morton, Jonathan Singletary Dunham, Coast Guard Station Manomet Point, Plymouth North High School, George Soule, Myles Standish Monument State Reservation, Plimoth Plantation Highway, Plymouth General Court, Plymouth Light, Brewster Productions, Plymouth South High School, Massachusetts Route 80, Neighborhoods in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth Bay, The Pinehills, Haunted Places in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth Cordage Company, Parting Ways (Plymouth, Massachusetts), Plymouth Municipal Airport, Leyden Street, Massasoit National Wildlife Refuge, Plymouth Mail Robbery, Plymouth Beach, Massachusetts, Pine Hills, Colony Place, Plymouth Public Schools, Town Brook, White Horse Beach, Massachusetts, Plymouth Pinelands, Clark's Island, Plymouth County Correctional Facility, Eel River, Little South Pond, Rocky Point, Jenney Grist Mill, The Shops at 5, South Plymouth, Massachusetts, Priscilla Beach, Massachusetts, Gurnet Point, Massachusetts, Plymouth Country Club, Griffin, Plymouth Harbor, Jordan Hospital, Brewster Gardens, Pilgrim Memorial State Park, Morton Park, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Pinewoods Dance Camp, Warren Cove, Sacrifice Rock, Plymouth Antiquarian Society. Excerpt: Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth, or Plymouth Bay Colony) was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. The settlement, which served as the capital of the colony, is today the modern town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. At its height, Plymouth Colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of the modern state of Massachusetts. Founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region. Aided by Squanto, a Native American of the Patuxet people, the colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success. The colony played a central role in King Philip's War, one of the earliest of the Indian Wars. Ultimately, the colony was annexed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691. Despite the colony's relatively short history, Plymouth holds a special role in American history. Rather than being entrepreneurs like many of the settlers of Jamestown, a significant proportion of the citizens of Plymouth were fleeing religious persecution and searching for a place to worship as they saw fit. The social and legal systems of the colony became closely tied to their religious beliefs, as well as English custom. Many of the people and events surrounding Plymouth Colony have become part of American folklore, including the North American tradition known as Thanksgiving and the monument known as Plymouth Rock. The village of Scrooby, England c., home to the 'Sai...