The Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor in 1620, after first stopping near today’s Provincetown. According to oral tradition, Plymouth Rock was the site where William Bradford and other Pilgrims first set foot on land. Bradford was the governor of Plymouth Colony for 30 years and is credited with establishing what we now call Thanksgiving. (Source: americanhistory.si.edu)
This is an 18th-century map of New England by John Green (real name Braddock Mead), first published by Thomas Jefferys in London in 1755. The map contains insets with ‘A Plan of the Town of Boston’, and ‘A Plan of Boston Harbor’ with soundings and navigation marks, and a beautifully illustrated title cartouche depicting the arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, with a large rock in the foreground inscribed, “Plymouth MDCXX” (Plymouth, 1620). (Source: battlemaps.us)