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They settled in the Netherlands first but did not want their children to grow up Dutch. So they hired a boat to take them to the New World. They were supposed to go to Virginia but they made an error because of a storm at sea and landed on Plymouth Rock.

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They had fled to Holland to avoid persecution in England. They sailed to the New World from there.

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Mainly from Europe, including The Netherlands, the UK and Spain and others.

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The Pilgrims in America came directly from the Netherlands. Previously they had emigrated there from England.

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