Massaschusetts Belcher Research
The Pilgrim's landed at Plymouth Rock, approximately 30 miles south of present day Boston in 1620, thirteen years after Jamestown. Again, the settlement persevered, but could not be described as a beachhead of colonization of the colonies. During the 1620's, there were some other settlers who migrated to Massachusetts after the Pilgrims, but they were small and relatively insignificant.There were also advance parties for the Puritans in the years 1628 and 1629.
Winthrop's Fleet landed in Salem, Massachusetts in 1630, with the first mass exodus of Puritans from England.
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