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Plymouth Colony   /plˈɪməθ kˈɑləni/   Listen
Plymouth Colony

noun
1.
Colony formed by the Pilgrims when they arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620; it was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691.





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"Plymouth colony" Quotes from Famous Books



... settled Boston, in grateful remembrance of the beautiful old city of Boston,[16] England, from which some of the chief emigrants came. The new settlement was called the Massachusetts Bay[17] Colony,[18] Massachusetts being the Indian name for the Blue Hills, near Boston. The Plymouth Colony was now often called the Old Colony, because it had been settled first. After many years, these two colonies were united, and still later they became the state ...
— The Beginner's American History • D. H. Montgomery


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