The charter of the Plymouth Colony reflected the most up-to-date economic, philosophical and religious thinking of the early 17th century.

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One of the earliest and arguably most historically significant North American colonies was Plymouth Colony, founded in 1620 in what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts.

FORBES: How A Failed Commune Gave Us What Is Now Thanksgiving

When the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony gave thanks for a bountiful harvest nearly four centuries ago, they enjoyed the fruits of their labor with the Wampanoag tribe -- a people who had shared vital knowledge of the land in the difficult months before.

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The Bay Psalm Book was written by pilgrims 20 years after they established a colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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Jamestown preceded Plymouth by thirteen years as the first permanent English colony on the continent.

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If you know your history, you are fully aware of the hardship suffered by the Pilgrims and the colony of patriots at the village in Plymouth.

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Plymouth, it turned out, wasn't even the first English colony in New England.

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