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Plymouth Colony. Plymouth Colony (sometimes Plimouth) was the first permanent English colony in New England from 1620 and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled by the passengers on the Mayflower at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by Captain John Smith.
Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the men aboard the Mayflower, consisting of Separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen.
Unknown, but carried approximately 135 people to Plymouth Colony. 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 ...
Jasper More, age 7, died on board the Mayflower on December 6, 1620. Buried ashore in the Provincetown area. Mary More, age 4 died in the winter of 1620. Location of her remains unknown. Name is represented on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Joseph Mullins*, age 14, February 22–28.
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 ...
But in the December 2013 Mayflower Quarterly, author Caleb Johnson reports new findings based on his research in England. He believes that she may be Mary Beckett, baptized February 24, 1605 at St. Mary, Watford, Hertfordshire, the daughter of John Beckett and Ann Alden. In Plymouth she was a single woman in the 1623 land division as "Marie ...
Mary Allerton. Mary Allerton Cushman (c. 1616 – 28 November 1699) was a Dutch settler of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. She was the last surviving passenger of the Mayflower. [1] She arrived at Plymouth on the Mayflower when she was about four years old and lived there the rest of her life; she died aged 83.
William and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) Brewster. William Brewster (c. 1566/67 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. He became senior elder and the leader of Plymouth Colony, by virtue of his education and existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being a Brownist (or Puritan Separatist).