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the first Europeans came in 1497
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The "new world"
The first Europeans to arrive in what now is Massachusetts were the Puritans aboard the Mayflower. Although they were headed for Virginia, their ship went off-course and drifted to the north. They finally made landfall on Cape Cod in 1610.
The First Europeans. The first Europeans to arrive in North America -- at least the first for whom there is solid evidence -- were Norse, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985.
The Portuguese. They "discovered" and "colonized" us.