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The Pilgrims were not the first Europeans in the area. There had been almost a century of exploration, fishing, and attempts at settlement and trade by other Europeans. The area had been mapped and explored - many of the sites which the Pilgrims landed at were already included on European maps of the area.
The future site of the Pilgrim's first settlement was originally named "Accomack" by Smith. In consultation with Prince Charles, son of King James, Smith changed "Accomack" to New Plymouth. A map published in his 1616 work A Description of New England clearly shows the site of the future Pilgrim settlement named "New Plimouth.
Unfortunately, not all of these meetings were good experiences for the Native Americans. Sometimes the Europeans came to trade. Other Europeans were less nice, raiding rather than trading. One incident near Plymouth, about six years before, involved an English captain (Thomas Hunt) kidnapping a group of natives and attempting to sell them into slavery in Spain. This enraged the local tribes, who were hostile and distrusting of future European visitors.
The Pilgrims didn't handle themselves particularly well either at their first landing, at Provincetown. Short on supplies, they sent landing parties ashore to look for food. Unfortunately, they found an easy source of food - in the form of baskets of corn which the local tribes had set out as part to help honor their dead. Starving and unaware of the issues, the Pilgrims took the corn. Things came to a head several weeks later during the "First Encounter", when local warriors attacked a landing party. After this, the Pilgrims decided to relocate to another area.
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