Mayflower Society Lecture: Pilgrim Stories: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things (Plymouth)

Unlike many colonies, Plymouth did not begin with an aristocratic sponsor or a titled governor. The Plymouth experiment was unique in that it was composed of and led by people of the “middling class.” Though they left Leyden seeking religious freedom, this independent thinking would lead to the implementation of political and economic freedoms unknown to the rest of the world. Unlike other colonies, the Pilgrims elected their own leaders and made their own laws without the interference of the Crown. One hundred and fifty years of independent governance would also inspire the Revolutionary War generation to fight for these freedoms in 1776. Come hear the little-known stories about how individual Pilgrims contributed to the laws and traditions that have built America–and about how these ordinary people accomplished extraordinary things!

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