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Definition of Pilgrim father
1. Noun. One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilgrim Father
Literary usage of Pilgrim father
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1833)
"... OF A pilgrim father TO ENGLAND. BY CORNELIUS WEBBE. I've trod my last step on
thy strand, And now am on thy wave; To seek a home in some far land, ..."
2. The Life of General William Booth: The Founder of the Salvation Army by Harold Begbie (1920)
"... THE CHARACTER OF pilgrim father 1886-1887 AT the age of fifty-seven William
Booth made his first visit to foreign countries. Quite simply and naturally, ..."
3. Random Recollections by Henry Brewster Stanton (1887)
"Thomas Stanton, the Indian Interpreter, and William Brewster, the pilgrim father.
— Indian Tribes in New London County.—Sachems Uncas, Sassacus ..."
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