It was about as parochial a controversy as you could find — residents in a Plymouth ... the town and the Independent, with disagreements over whether reporters could record public meetings ...

I was born very near the town where my father was born ... Two of, you know, the first Fifields to come into, Plymouth Colony was a guy named William Fifield in 1634. And he came over on a ...

Companies like the Virginia Company and the Plymouth Company set ... Some, like Massachusetts Bay Colony, embraced self-government through town meetings, while others were directly ruled by ...