A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place; travellers. Often used to describe early New Zealand colonists coming as a member of one of the organised settlement associations e.g. the Canterbury Association.

English settlers who came to America long ago and set up communities.

small group of separatists who left England in search of religious freedom and sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620

A small band of English immigrants who came to this continent seeking religious freedom, land, and profit. They were the first "boat people" to settle on this continent.

Pilgrims is the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony, MA. Their leadership came from a religious congregation who had fled a volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm of Holland in the Netherlands. Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.