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  2. Plymouth Colony - Wikipedia

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    Many of the people and events surrounding Plymouth Colony have become part of American folklore, including the American tradition of Thanksgiving and the monument of Plymouth Rock. [ 1 ] : 2 Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of Protestant Separatists initially known as the Brownist Emigration, who came to be known as the Pilgrims .

  3. List of Mayflower passengers - Wikipedia

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    Other passengers were hired hands, servants, or farmers recruited by London merchants, all originally destined for the Colony of Virginia. Four of this latter group of passengers were small children given into the care of Mayflower pilgrims as indentured servants. The Virginia Company began the transportation of children in 1618. [37]

  4. Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) - Wikipedia

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    The term Pilgrims was not mentioned, other than in Robbins' 1793 recitation. [63] The first documented use of the term that was not simply quoting Bradford was at a December 22, 1798, celebration of Forefathers' Day in Boston. A song composed for the occasion used the word Pilgrims, and the participants drank a toast to "The Pilgrims of Leyden".

  5. Amish - Wikipedia

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    When people refer to the Amish today, they normally refer to the Old Order Amish, though there are other subgroups of Amish. [8] The Amish fall into three main subgroups—the Old Order Amish, the New Order Amish , and the Beachy Amish —all of whom wear plain dress and live their life according to the Bible as codified in their church's Ordnung .

  6. Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) - Wikipedia

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    King James I and Charles I made some efforts to reconcile the Puritan clergy who had been alienated by the lack of change in the Church of England.Puritans embraced Calvinism (Reformed theology) with its opposition to ritual and an emphasis on preaching, a growing sabbatarianism, and preference for a presbyterian system of church polity, as opposed to the episcopal polity of the Church of ...

  7. Historical sources of the Crusades: pilgrimages and exploration

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    Saint Jerome (c. 347–420), a Latin historian wrote of the early pilgrims to Jerusalem, some of which were published in PPTS I.4, I.5. [11] Epistotlae, De Viris Illustribus and Liber Paralipumenon. An account of pilgrimages that began in the early 3rd century AD with a bishop of Caesarea named Fermilian. Pilgrimage of Holy Paula.

  8. Amish youth experience a rite of passage called Rumspringa ...

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    For the Amish people, Rumspringa means something completely different than what you often see in popular media. Amish youth experience a rite of passage called Rumspringa. It’s not what you ...

  9. List of Amish and their descendants - Wikipedia

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    Jacob and Anna Hostetler, spiritual leaders of the Jesus Church of Washington and leaders of the Amish-Mennonite Evangelism Network of the United Pentecostal Church; Alan Kreider, religious professor; Gerald Miller, medical missionary; Elmo Stoll, bishop and founder of the "Christian Communities"