The first english settlers in Newengand were named as the pilgrimfathers. In year 1620 they sailed with the mainflower, an old sailing ship, over the atlantik, to Massachusetts. There they founded a new colonie, the Plymouth. The first permanent European settlement in New England.

Although the Pilgrims were not the first english settlers in the territory of the united states, they play, as pioneers of the amerikan folklore, a big roll!

The Pilgrimfathers were separatists. So they were belong to a special radical type in the english puritanism. This sort of the group did’nt belonged to the englisch church, and demanded a apsolut municipal autonomy.