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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.
Speedwell. (1577 ship) 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 ...
List of Mayflower passengers at the National Monument to the Forefathers. Note: An asterisk on a name indicates those who died in the winter of 1620–21. Allerton, Isaac (possibly Suffolk). [3] Mary (Norris) Allerton*, wife (Newbury, Berkshire) [4] Bartholomew Allerton, 7, son (Leiden, Holland). Remember Allerton, 5, daughter (Leiden).
Martha Ford – Widow of Fortune passenger William Ford. In the 1623 land division the family was assigned 4 lots under her name as “Widow Foord.”. In 1626 she married Mayflower passenger Peter Browne. In 1627 cattle division the family appears as “Peeter” and Martha Browne, with her Ford children John and Martha “fford.”.
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 travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts (John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final ...
The Landing of the Pilgrims by Henry A. Bacon (1877) Faunce's father had arrived in the colony aboard the ship Anne in 1623, just three years after the Mayflower landing, and Elder Faunce was born in 1647, when many of the Mayflower Pilgrims were still living, so his assertion made a strong impression on the people of Plymouth. The wharf was ...
Pilgrim was an early 19th century American sailing brig. She was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about a 1834–1835 voyage between Massachusetts and California to trade for hides. Pilgrim caught fire and sank at sea in 1856.
Mayflower II is a reproduction of the 17th-century ship Mayflower, celebrated for transporting the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. [3] The reproduction was built in Devon, England during 1955–1956, in a collaboration between Englishman Warwick Charlton and Plimoth Patuxet (at the time known as Plimoth Plantation), a living history museum.