Let's start with the fake news contained in their name. It began at Jamestown, Virginia over a decade earlier. The Viriginia House Of Burgesses was up and running colonial government before the Pilgrims ever blundered into Cape Cod on their way to their grant in... Virginia!
As a child, "1607" was engraved indelibly onto my mind, since it was our family address during parochial grammar school, which was a block away, in a former San Francisco, California.
Yes I remember that from learning American History, not later than our fourth grade.