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People from England came to America. They were called Pilgrims. They came to America in 1620. The Pilgrims wanted freedom of religion. They wanted to choose their own church. â¦ They came on a ship they called the Mayflower. The Pilgrims lived in a place called Plymouth.
That year, a group of them board the Mayflower in Plymouth, England, and arrive in America after a grueling two-month voyage. Landing in Massachusetts, they establish the second successful colony in America, also called Plymouth, and become known as the Pilgrims. The Puritans, who are mostly Calvinists, reject some of the rituals, liturgy, and hierarchy of the Anglican Church, whose roots are in Roman Catholicism.