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Aug 14, 2020 · The Mayflower took 102 passengers, many fleeing religious persecution and known as the Pilgrim Fathers, adventurers, and others across the treacherous North Atlantic from Plymouth in Devon to the New World in 1620. The settlements they established laid the foundations for what would become the United States of America.
Oct 29, 2009 · Of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, there were 50 men, 19 women and 33 young adults and children. Just 41 were true Pilgrims, religious separatists seeking freedom from the Church of...
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Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the men aboard the Mayflower, consisting of Separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen.
Nearly 400 years ago, the Pilgrims left Southampton to embark on their historic transatlantic voyage on August 15 1620. They were on two ships - the iconic Mayflower and the lesser known Speedwell - and boarded on the south coast of England set for a new life in America.
Nov 18, 2020 · The 41 Pilgrims and 61 “strangers” (non-Separatists brought along as skilled craftsmen and indentured servants) who boarded the Mayflower in 1620 made for unusual cargo, and their destination...
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Mar 4, 2010 · The Mayflower was a merchant ship that carried 102 passengers, including nearly 40 Protestant Separatists, on a journey from England to the New World in 1620.
The Mayflower Compact was the Pilgrims’ first self-governing act in America. It initiated the principle and value of self-government that would endure and later become a key founding principle of the United States of America.
