pilgrims to America

[bricro]

where did the first pilgrims land?

Thank you in advance

[shaneystar]

Cape Cod.
According to:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim_Fathers

[Tatty Rollox]

.......... and here is a picture of Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown ........

[ChocClare]

Aren't they traditionally supposed to have landed at Plymouth Rock? (Still in Cape Cod, I grant you.)

It's one of those har-de-har things, isn't it?  They set out in the Mayflower from Plymouth and landed at - what a coincidence!! - Plymouth Rock...

[jno]

no mention of Plymouth Rock for 100 years afterwards: see here.

[Kingnormie]

Hmmmmm!  Maybe they just weren't called "Pilgrims".....English settlers established Roanoke Colony on the island off the coast of what would become Virginia, in either 1580 or 1582, well before the Plymouth Rock gang hit town.  My direct descendant, John White, was Governor of the Colony.  John White sailed back to England shortly after the Colony's Establishment and was two years gone.....when he returned the Colony had vanished (Lost Colony Of Roanoke).  No signs of violence.  The local Indians reported that the Colonists had departed with a little-known band of "light-skinned" Indians.....maybe Cherokees?  Maybe the original Native Americans, those whose descendants call them "hillbillies", emigrants fron the Iberian Peninsula roughly 10,000 years before.  Linguistic studies have tied some aspects of primitive Southeast North America to the ancient Iberian Peninsula and, in the lower Mississippi River Valley there exist ancient (10,000 year-old) mounds of much older design than the famous Ohio River Valley Mounds.  DNA evidence of remains in the area of the site indicate, also, European connections.

[jno]

your descendant Kingnormie? You must be getting on a bit. Yes, the term pilgims or pilgrim fathers is usually applied to those who sailed in the Mayflower, but there were settlers well before that, including the Roanoke ones. And that's just the English; the Spaniards were in North America even earlier.

[King Normie]

Ooops! I do, indeed mean to say my Ancestor! None of my Descendants was ever the Governor of an English Colony!