| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1620/12/28 | William Brewster (Pilgrim) | Life | English colonists measure out the ground along Town Creek and assign 19 family lots beside the brook. Each utilitarian plot provides space to work, secure fresh water, trap fish and harvest thatch. Elder Brewster's plot is rich with thatch. | |||
| 1621/09/00 | Myles Standish | Attendee | For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. - Log of the Mayflower | Cod | First Thanksgivings | |
| 1623/00/00 | Gov William Bradford | Governor | so assigned to every family a parcel of land. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn. - Bradford | |||
| 1623/08/00 | Eleanor Adams Winslow | Life | During the anual land division, Elinor Newton is granted one acre to farm "against the swampe and reed-ponde... this goeth in wth a corner by ye ponde." | |||
| 1627/05/22 | Francis Cooke | Life | The Company distributes the cattle, cows and goats, equally to all the persons. Francis Cooke and his wife Hester Cooke are the first to recieve one lot: 4 black heyfers and two shee goats. | |||
| 1675/07/08 | Jonathan Delano | Colonial Soldier | Benjamin Church and his new Sakonnet recruits arrive in Plymouth where they recruit several new English volunteers, including Jabez Howland's brother Isaac, Caleb Cook, Jonathan Delano and Jonathan Barnes. | King Philip's War |
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| Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
| Sight Category | Site |
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