There are no historic references to the Pilgrims' landing on a rock at Plymouth. There are two primary sources written by the Pilgrims themselves describing the landing in Plymouth in 1620, William Bradford's journal Of Plymouth Plantation and the 1622 book popularly known as Mourt's Relation. The references state simply that they landed.
Mayflower Pilgrims arrive in the New World
The
Mayflower anchored in the Bay of Cape Cod on 21 Nov., 1620, and on 25 Nov.
sixteen armed men, "every one his Musket, Sword, and Corslet, under the
command of Captaine Myles Standish," were sent ashore for a second
exploration. They marched in single file through what is now Provincetown, where
they saw several Indians, followed their tracks about ten miles, and spent the
night in the woods. Three subsequent expeditions were sent out. On the third,
after landing in the vicinity of Eastham, they went toward Wellfleet, found an
Indian burying-place and Indian houses, and encamped before nightfall at
Nanskeket. On the following day they were surprised by
the Indians, upon whom Standish fired,
but the skirmish was slight.
On 29 Sept., 1621, after the founding of
Plymouth, a party of ten men, witch three savages as guides, under command of
Standish, who had been appointed military captain in February, 1621, explored
Massachusetts bay. They anchored off what is now Thomson's island, which
Standish explored and named Trevore. This party also explored the broad plain
known as "Massachusetts fields," the gathering-place of the
tribes, which comprised a part of what, is now Quincy.
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