| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1608 | | Separatists go to Holland | | pilgrims, Plymouth, settlement |
| 1622 | | Mourt's Relation published in London | | pilgrims, Bradford, Plymouth |
| 1628 | | Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass) | Miles Standish commanded an expedition against Thomas Morton's fur-trading post. Plymouth officials feared Morton's men were trading guns with Indians. | Pilgrims, Hawthorne, Standish, maypole, Indian" |
| 1637 | | Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan" | | maypole, pilgrims, Endicott, Hawthorne" |
| 1858 | | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth |