And when they finally reached the coast of North America, almost nothing went according to plan.

Before they could establish a colony…

before they could build homes…

before they could even know whether they would survive what was coming…

they faced a question that would become far more important than they could possibly have understood at the time.

Plymouth References

PRIMARY & CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL SOURCES

William Bradford — Of Plimoth Plantation

• Principal firsthand source for the Scrooby/Leiden congregation
• Reasons for leaving Holland
• “Manifold temptations”
• “All great & honour ...