Founded
1620, the chartered colony along the north of the
Eastern Seaboard[?] of the
North American continent, granted by
James I of
England to the
Pilgrim Fathers. The first governing document of the colony was the
Mayflower Compact, drafted and ratified by the first group of colonists aboard their ship, the
Mayflower, as it lay off-shore. The first settlement of the colony was
New Plimouth[?], later
Plymouth,
MA. The famous
Plymouth Rock[?] upon which tradition says the Pilgrims alighted from their boats is located in modern-day Plymouth.
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