Pilgrim Album/First "pilgrim"

The people we think of as "The Pilgrims" referred to themselves as "the Old Comers" or "the First Comers." By the 1840s Americans referred to them as "pilgrims," taking the word from the writings of Mills ancestor William Bradford, who used the term in the above sentence in Of Plymouth Plantation. The phrase reads "...so they left the good and pleasant city [Leyden, Holland], which had been their resting place near 12 years, but they knew they were pilgrims and looked not more on these things, but lift up their eyes to the heavens their dearest country, and quieted their spirits."