One of the most prevalent misconceptions is that the pilgrims were puritans. The pilgrims were seperationists who ran from the Church of England, while the puritans tried to ‘purify’ the church of catholic practices from within.
Most of the people on the Mayflower had been attending the Leiden Church in Holland...(Reformed Dutch/Walloon/Huguenot)
there were also a few Huguenots amongst the Mayflower group..
The people at the Leiden church knew some of the passengers on the New Netherland, the ship that went to NYC in 1623/24..
That’s partly where Jesse de Forest got his idea to go to Virginia..apply to the English ambassador for permission...however after getting turned down they went to the new Dutch Colony of “New Netherland” (named for that 1st ship)
I had ancestors on that ship too...Phillip du Trieux..