Plymouth and Jamestown are probably best known as the earliest permanent English settlements successfully established in the 1600s. With the Plymouth colony lasting more than 70 years and Jamestown nearly 100 years, these colonies had a lasting impact on early colonial America.
These early colonies expanded and went on to found new settlements in other areas. The Plymouth Colony moved outward—including, but not limited to, Duxbury and Marshfield to the north, Taunton and Bridgewater to the west, and even to Windsor in present-day Connecticut.
