Pilgrims

1. A group of English Puritans , persecuted in their own country, who emigrated to America. The first group arrived on the Mayflowerin 1620. They landed at Plymouth Rock , in what is now Massachusetts , and established the Plymouth Colony , with the Mayflower Compact as their constitution . William Bradford and Miles Standish were noted leaders of the colony.

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We are pilgrims, our life is a long walk or journey from earth to heaven.

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After all, Spanish conquistadors arrived in the early 1500s, well before the Jamestown settlers in 1607 or the Pilgrims in 1620.

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In Mauritania, Chinguetti once flourished with scholars, pilgrims, and religious leaders.

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Some are pilgrims from out of town, come to savor the best granola on the West Coast.

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Last year, more than 20,000 pilgrims visited for the November anniversary.

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The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.

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It really ain't safe for such pilgrims t' be cavortin' over the prairies with all that boodle in their jeans.

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This was the first settling of North America, and thirteen years anterior to the landing of the Pilgrims.

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An immense number of pilgrims come here every year to pay their adoration to this divine tooth.

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A great multitude of pilgrims go there to obtain splinters of the true cross.

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