CANTERBURY PILGRIMS
ARRIVALS ON FIRST FOUR SHIPS. The Canterbury settlers gave the name of Pilgrims to all who arrived in the first four ships—the Cressy, the Charlotte Jane, the Randolph, and the Sir George Seymour. The Pilgrims, according to L. G. D. Acland, were imbued with the small farming ideas of the Englishmen of their day. It was the influence of the Prophets, or Shagroons, men who had left Australia after the ruinous droughts of 1851, which introduced into Canterbury the Australian fashion for large pastoral holdings. There was yet another class of settlers in early Canterbury with an appropriate nickname. These were the Pre-Adami les, men who could afford to look down their noses even at the Pilgrims, because they had settled in Canterbury before the foundation of the Church of England colony in 1850. They were located principally in Banks Peninsula, though families like the Deans brothers had already begun the settlement of the Plains.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1939, Page 3
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