Show NEW YORK GOAL OF PILGRIMS Their Original Intention Was to Found a Colony There but Plans Were Frustrated The Pilgrim Fathers might have founded New York If It had not been for the bribing of the Mayflower skipper skipper skip skip- per by the Dutch who persuaded him to keep the Pilgrims from the mouth month t of f the great river which they planned to settle with a colony of ot their own The ancient charter of ot the Pilgrims gave them land which probably included included Included In in- New York The patent was granted to them after they fled from the Virginia company This grant was not exactly the Instrument the Pilgrims Pilgrims Pil Pil- grims wanted because of ot Its religious religions provisions The Pilgrims wished to get a patent that would permit penult them the fullest liberty of ot worship but the king refused to give them a charter In which a definite stipulation of ot religIous religions religious ious ions freedom was contained So they were forced to content themselves with the Virginia patent It being suggested suggested suggested sug sug- by their sympathizers that In Inthe Inthe inthe the wilderness they would probably I Inot not be disturbed i |