Plymouth Rock

Is there a way to determine where the truth lays when there are two different perspectives on the same situations? Unfortunately, there is no clear cut answer. In William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation and Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan, there are countless discrepancies between each story. Both men seek to defame one another in order to preserve the innocence of their individual characters. They are not exactly successful in their mission when Morton and Bradford spend time discussing…

Many people came to the New World looking for new possibilities, freedom, and a place to settle and become an established, respectable land. Starting in the early 1600’s, the Virginia Company wanted a settlement in America. The Chesapeake colonies, including Virginia and Maryland first established the town of Jamestown. “Jamestown was intended to become the core of a long-term settlement effort, creating new wealth for the London investors and recreating English society in North America”…

William Bradford and Edward Winslow’s Mourts Relation is a first account experience of what the passengers of the Mayflower, a British vessel which landed in present-day Plymouth , Massachusetts in 1620, experienced on the grounds of what they assumed was going to be an abandoned piece of land . It documents the exploration of many different spots that they stumbled upon such as camps, burying grounds and villages. The first encounter as said in Mourts Relation sets the platform for what most…

stories, “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford, and “My mom, a Mexican Immigrant, Taught Me to Love America” by Cristela Alonzo all touch on the difficulties and progress three very different groups of immigrants went through. Each of these took place in different times and had their own trials, but found that they could bring good things to these new places, in their own way. In the story, “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan…

The pilgrims arrived on Plymouth and set up land on the Indians territory. The Indians were essential to the Pilgrims survival. The picture supports Our Republic because the Indians taught the pilgrims everything they knew, and the pilgrims did not have their colony together until years after they had arrived, and the picture does not portray that. The picture makes people believe the pilgrims put the first Thanksgiving together. The Indians are the ones who taught the pilgrims how to hunt,…

Mary Rowlandson and her use of David’s Psalms When the Puritans arrived in New England, they saw themselves confronted with a wilderness in which they wanted to found their “New Jerusalem”. In the Psalms of David, which describe his own spiritual “wilderness experience”, they found hope and consolation. It is not surprisingly then, that these Psalms appeared in the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book of 1640. David’s Psalms appeared to be of particular importance to one Puritan…

Bradford and Equiano have narratives with differing tone, audience, and purpose. However, both narratives align in experiences and values. Horrific circumstances and the value of human life are expressed in Bradford’s "of Plymouth Plantation" and Equiano’s "An Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.” First, both narrators endure horrific circumstances in essentially the same situations. The ships are stricken with sickness and conditions, whether it be nature or people causing it.…

In the late 1400s, when Christopher Columbus stumbled across North America, the world was altered. Many countries established colonies, but the only ones that stuck were the English colonies. Jamestown was first, and 12 others followed. Everyone had different reasons for migrating and the culture of these colonies showed that. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, their reasons for settling, their government structures, and their…

essential part of learning about such travels. John Smith’s The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Sumer Isles and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation recount the founding of two unique settlements. John Smith was an influential member of the Jamestown settlement. Further north, William Bradford assisted in founding the Plymouth settlement along with the Pilgrims. While these are not the only authors of earlier American travel narratives, certainly their books contribute an…

Massasschuetts. It was the infamous colony of Plymouth. The colony was founded by the pilgrims, who were fleeing Europe on the grounds of religious persecuetion. So…