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Dec 2, 2009 · The Pilgrims were the people who arrived in Massachusetts via the Mayflower in 1620 and formed the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England.
Unknown, but carried approximately 135 people to Plymouth Colony. Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.
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Mayflower, in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.
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Oct 21, 2020 · The Mayflower is the name of the cargo ship that brought the Puritan separatists (known as pilgrims) to North America in 1620 CE. It was a type of sailing ship known as a carrack with three masts with square-rigged sails on the main and foremast, three decks (upper, gun, and cargo), and measured roughly 100 feet (27 m) long and 25 feet (7 m) wide.
- Joshua J. Mark
- Pilgrims Before the Mayflower. Mayflower Myths. In 1608, a congregation of disgruntled English Protestants from the village of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, left England and moved to Leyden, a town in Holland.
- The Mayflower Journey. The Mayflower. First, the Separatists returned to London to get organized. A prominent merchant agreed to advance the money for their journey.
- The Mayflower Compact. After sixty-six days, or roughly two miserable months at sea, the ship finally reached the New World. There, the Mayflower’s passengers found an abandoned Indian village and not much else.
- The First Thanksgiving. First Thanksgiving Meal. The colonists spent the first winter living onboard the Mayflower. Only 53 passengers and half the crew survived.
The Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1857) by American painter Robert Walter Weir at the Brooklyn Museum. The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts ( John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620 ...
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 was...
