We all know that “the Pilgrim Fathers or Planters” were those who arrived in what-would-become American shores in 1620 aboard the ship Mayflower, right?  Wrong.

“We may define, roughly, the “Pilgrim” Planters as those who came to New Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620, and in the Fortune in 1621, and  in the Anne and Little James in 1623, and the Mayflower (again) in 1629. There were a few, closely related to this group, who came over in the Handmaid, and other ships, in 1630 or soon thereafter.

So how would you define the difference between a Pilgrim and a Planter?

(History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters, by Leon Clark Hills, 1936, published in the Cape Cod series, Vol. 1 and 2.)