* The Tax Law requires the interest rate on sales tax assessments or late payments to be set at 14.5% for this quarter.
More than a week after the vessel first set out, the winds were finally favorable. The ship weighed anchor and sailed for New England. Governor John Winthrop and approximately 300 English Puritans were on board. They were leaving their homes in England to settle in a fledgling colony â Massachusetts Bay â on the other side of the Atlantic.
In 1 â¦ 617 the Pilgrims began  looking to leave Holland and settle in the New World. In 1620, the  Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and established the second  successful English settlement in the New World (Jamestown in  Virginia being the first, having been established in 1607).