Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony

The Mayflower brought 102 passengers, many of them English Separatists seeking freedom of worship, to Cape Cod in November 1620; they signed the Mayflower Compact before landing and settled at Plymouth in December. About half died that first winter. The survivors relied on the Wampanoag, whose leader Massasoit made an alliance with them in 1621, a peace that collapsed into King Philip's War in 1675.