Quote Originally Posted by IRISH View Post
very late to this interesting thread, and not to take away from anyone's connection to the mayflower voyagers, but i'm reminded of the remarkable early passages of colin woodard's the lobster coast in which he writes about the early fishing colonies of maine inhabited by scotch-irish (funded by english investors) and their predating plymouth rock by roughly a decade.

apologies if this is off topic or has been covered previously.
As I think was mentioned, the Plymouth colony founded by the Mayflower pasengers wasn't the first English or British colony in America. That was Jamestowne, settled in 1607, some 13 years before the Pilgrims' arrival.