1621 to 1692
NOVEMBER 1621
A second English ship sent to America by Plymouth Colony's investors arrives off Cape Cod. Other ships carry new colonists follow over the next few years.
JUNE 1630
A flotillas of ships begins delivering more than 700 English Puritans to the new Massachusetts Bay Colony, in present-day Boston.
Over the next 10 years, this new colony will grow to be much larger and influential than Plymouth Colony.
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MAY 9, 1657
Plymouth Colony's longtime governor, William Bradford, dies. He had spent 20 years writing a now-famous history of the Mayflower Pilgrims called "Of Plymouth Plantation." There are those today who want this thrown out because of the word plantation which brings to mind slaves.
JUNE 20, 1675
King Phillip's War begins. The conflict between Indians and English colonists across southern New England is devastating. By the time it ends in 1678, the Indian population of the region is reduced by 40 to 80 percent.
JUNE 8, 1692
The final meeting of the Plymouth Colony legislature is held, as the colony is absorbed into the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony.
--CootPilgrim
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