Why did the pilgrims think they would be successful in massachusetts?

 the pilgrims believed in predestination or what is simply known as, 'your graph is drawn'
Pilgrim members held strongly to the fact that they were destined for success in the new world. Predestination was central to the pilgrim protestant faith in that they held that before the world was created,God had a master plan for mankind as evident in the story of salvation of mankind through Christ.