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[Mr Quatro]

The Mayflower Voyage
http://www.history.com/topics/pilgrims

The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade under the relatively lenient Dutch laws. Due to economic difficulties, as well as fears that they would lose their English language and heritage, they began to make plans to settle in the New World

They set sail from Plymouth, England, but they had in been in the Netherlands for (10) years due to the Church of England didn't like their puritan views.