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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.
The Mayflower Generation: the Winslow Family and the Fight for the New World (Vintage, 2017) Tompkins, Stephen. The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom (Hodder and Stoughton, 2020) Vandrei, Martha. "The Pilgrim's Progress," History Today (May 2020) 70#5 pp 28–41. Covers the historiography 1629 to 2020; online
Speedwell was a 60-ton pinnace that carried a band of English Dissenters now popularly called the Pilgrims from Leiden, Holland, to England, whence they intended to sail to America aboard both the Speedwell and the Mayflower in 1620. The Pilgrims initially set sail in both ships, but Speedwell was found to be unseaworthy and both ships returned ...
The 102 passengers and approximately 30 crew of the Mayflower, who came from England and the Netherlands, set sail Sept. 16, 1620, and have commonly been portrayed as pilgrims seeking religious ...
In about a week's time, the Mayflower will once again journey the sea — the Mayflower II, that is. And it will take a much shorter voyage, with a shortcut through the Cape Cod Canal , than its ...
The Mayflower II will return home to Plymouth from Mystic by way of the Cape Cod Canal. See where the ship is now with this online tracker. ... The 102-foot wooden vessel will not be under sail ...
1882 depiction of the ship Mayflower sailing from England to America in 1620, in Plymouth Harbor In 1620 the Pilgrims attempted to sail to the Hudson River from England. However, Mayflower reached Cape Cod (now part of Massachusetts) on November 9, 1620, after a voyage of 64 days. [ 11 ]
John Allerton* – A Mayflower seaman hired as colony labor for one year who was then to return to Leiden to assist church members with travel to America. He died some time before the Mayflower departed for England on April 5, 1621. [67] ____ Ely – A Mayflower seaman contracted to stay for one year.