Why did the Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth? A. They wanted to escape the restrictions of their charter to be free of English rule. B. They were thrown off course and were no longer in the area specified in their charter. C. They did not want to be near the Jamestown colonists or other groups settling in Virginia. D. They found the climate more like that of Holland, which they had grown accustomed to. E. They headed north suddenly after spotting what they thought was a Spanish warship.