Apr 25, 2018
Before Massachusetts Bay Company plans were finalized, John Endicott sailed to Naumkeag to relieve a group of colonists already there, and pave the way for the mass migration being planned. A year later, he'd gotten some reinforcements, established a church and made progress building and planting. Two years...
Apr 18, 2018
An overview of the political climate which led to the Great Migration, and which would ultimately lead to the English Civil War.
Apr 11, 2018
As Plymouth started to stabilize, the Merchant Adventurers in London sent a radical Puritan minister to take spiritual control of the colony. It became the biggest fight the Pilgrims had yet faced, damaging their finances and resulting in the exile of the minister and his closest ally. The last episode of the Plymouth...
Apr 4, 2018
The Pilgrims had no sooner repaired relations with Massasoit that problems arose with the Massachusetts. Weston's men had settled at a place called Wessagusset, and had no food for the winter. They were starving, and the Massachusetts were opposed to English presence in the region. They were planning to wipe out both...