“First True Pilgrims”: band of French colonists arrived in the New World 50 years before Mayflower left port
2019-09-17
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Some fifty years before the Mayflower left port, a band of French colonists came to the New World.
Like the later English Pilgrims, these Protestants were victims of religious wars, raging across France and much of Europe. And like those later Pilgrims, they too wanted religious freedom and the chance for a new life. But they also wanted to