Tag: Plymouth Colony

Inside the Story of Mary Rowlandson, the Courageous Colonial Woman Who Endured Captivity and Lived to Share Her Tale

Not many people today have heard of King Philip’s War. Though a small-scale event by modern standards, it devastated colonial America. As Plymouth Colony expanded in the years following the Mayflower’s arrival, the famous positive relations between Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians started to break down. Plymouth’s second-generation leaders began to violate treaties negotiated by their…


Wisely Governing the Pilgrims, William Bradford Applied the Mayflower Compact to Form a Rough Democracy

Death came to them in many guises. A sailor who had blasphemed in front of the children fell ill from fever and was buried at sea. Dorothy, the wife of Pilgrim William Bradford, reached the New Land but slipped from the moored Mayflower and drowned in the freezing waters of Cape Cod harbor. By the…