A pilgrim is someone who takes a journey. Truthfully out of the 102 pilgrims on the Mayflower, 74 men and 28 women, only 47 were separatists, the people escaping persecution in england. 18 were...
The pilgrims were known as separatists because they did not believe in the teachings of the English church so they SEPERATED from it. They did this by coming to the Americas and starting their own...