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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. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
By June 1620, he and Mayflower had been hired for the Pilgrims voyage by their business agents in London, Thomas Weston of the Merchant Adventurers and Robert Cushman. [51] [52] Historical marker in London honoring Mayflower and Captain Jones Plymouth Rock, which commemorates the landing of Mayflower in 1620. Masters Mate: John Clark (Clarke ...
Elizabeth Tilley (c. August 1607 – December 21, 1687) was one of the passengers on the historic 1620 voyage of the Mayflower and a participant in the first Thanksgiving in the New World. She was the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Tilley and his wife Joan Hurst and, although she was their youngest child, appears to be the only one who ...
William Butten/Button, November 6/16 on board Mayflower. Buried either at sea or later possibly ashore. Memorial in Provincetown. (a young man) [4] Robert Carter*, after February 21; James Chilton*, 8/18 on board Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor. Most likely buried ashore. Memorial in Provincetown. Signer of the Mayflower Compact. Richard Clarke*
For the quadricentennial of the first Thanksgiving in 1621, a Florida group of Mayflower descendants invited a Middle Eastern family to dinner.
Mayflower passenger. Oceanus [23] was born at sea on the Mayflower voyage in the fall of 1620. He died by 22 May 1627. Caleb was born in Plymouth about 1624. He became a seaman and died at Barbados between 1644 and 1651. Deborah was born in Plymouth about 1626 and died probably before 1674.
Plymouth Colony did not have a royal charter authorizing it to form a government, yet some means of governance was needed. The Mayflower Compact was the colony's first governing document, signed by the 41 Puritan men aboard the Mayflower upon their arrival in Provincetown Harbor on November 21, 1620. Formal laws were not codified until 1636.
The Mayflower is the original ship that brought the Pilgrims to America in. Three more unreleased FarmVille items have come to our attention tonight, two of which are Thanksgiving themed, and one ...