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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.
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.
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.
There were 102 passengers on the Mayflower when it left Plymouth, England on September 6, 1620. 50 of those passengers were Separatists from Leiden, Netherlands, who were given permission to move to America and establish a colony.
More than 30 million people can trace their ancestry to the 102 passengers and approximately 30 crew aboard the Mayflower when it landed in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, in the harsh winter of 1620. On board were men, women and children from different walks of life across England and the city of Leiden in Holland.
The Mayflower was the vessel that brought the first English Puritans, who are now commonly referred to as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the continent of North America in 1620. The voyage of the Mayflower and the people who boarded it had a crucial part in the early colonization and settlement of the Americas.
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...
The Society provides education and understanding of why the Mayflower Pilgrims were important, how they shaped western civilization, and what their 1620 voyage means today and its impact on the world.
View the original list of passengers (PDF, 2.6Mb) from the handwritten manuscript of Gov. William Bradford, written up about 1651 (file link is to the State Library of Massachusetts). Below is a complete list of all Mayflower passengers, along with a link to each for further information. John and Eleanor Billington, and sons John and Francis.
Mayflower II. 75 Water Street, Plymouth. While no one knows for sure what happened to the original Mayflower, if you’d like to board the Pilgrims’ famous ship, the Mayflower II is the next best thing. This full-scale reproduction of the tall ship is a floating classroom and working vessel.