Pilgrims were the first settlers of Plymouth, now modern day Massachusetts, and founded the first permanent colony of New England in 1620. Pilgrims are members of a radical faction of Puritanism and the English Separist Church. One third of the 102 colonists on the Mayflower were a part of the faction and they became the dominant group of the new North American colony. Later Americans would begin calling their Forefathers; Pilgrim Fathers in 1820 by Daniel Webster.