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Read "the Enduring Shore" by Paul Schnieder. The Pilgrims story is well told and factual. (I especially liked the part about the first public execution in the Plymouth Colony, it was an 18 year old kid who got hung for "buggery" seems he did up sheep, pigs, goats horses and cows plus, and I have no Idea how you would do this, a turkey.)
When the hung him they made him watch as they killed all the animals he buggered which they then buried in a pit as they were thought to be unfit for human consumption then they hung him on
the same day.
Saddest part was what the contact with the English, French and Spanish did to the native american indians, thousands died from influenza. It was documented by Miles Standish as he went to Massaoits camp near Bristol RI and he passed villages where the houses still stood but the skeletons were the only ones in them.
The Nausets got it right, they didn't like the Plgrims, trust them or want anything to do with them.
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