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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 ...
Mayflower Steps All about the Mayflower and Pilgrim Fathers with a Plymouth (UK) focus. Many pictures; The Mayflower Pub London The original mooring point of The Pilgrim Fathers’ Mayflower ship in Rotherhithe, London and the oldest pub on the River Thames; Pilgrim ships from 1602 to 1638 Pilgrim ships searchable by ship name, sailing date and ...
Stephen Hopkins (fl. 1579 – d. 1644) [2] was an English adventurer to the Virginia Colony and Plymouth Colony.Most notably, he was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636. [3]
The Mayflower remained in Plymouth Harbor through the winter and then on 5 April, with her empty hold ballasted by stones from the Plymouth Harbor shore, Jones set sail for England. As with the Pilgrims, her sailors had been decimated by illness, with Jones having lost his boatswain, his gunner, three quartermasters, the cook, and more than a ...
Forty-five of the 102 Mayflower passengers died in the winter of 1620–21, and the Mayflower colonists suffered greatly during their first winter in the New World from lack of shelter, scurvy, and general conditions on board ship. [1] They were buried on Cole's Hill. [2]
With the Railroad Bridge as a backdrop, the Mayflower II crew makes its way through the Cape Cod Canal in 2022. The ship is a historic reproduction of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to the ...
The Mayflower in the New World. The first successful British colony in America was set up in 1607 at Jamestown. It languished until a new wave of colonists arrived in the late 17th century and set up commercial agriculture based on tobacco. The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth in 1620. The connection between the American colonies and Britain ...