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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 at what now is Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert Walter Weir (commissioned 1837; placed 1844), oil on canvas, 12 x 18 feet, United States Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC; Robinson is depicted leading them in prayer Historical marker to the memory of John Robinson near where he is buried at the Pieterskerk, Leiden, Netherlands
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 frontispiece of Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622. The booklet Mourt's Relation (full title: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England) was written between November 1620 and November 1621, and describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor ...
John Robinson was Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers leading the Separatists since his days at college at Cambridge [19] Susanna White, wife, widowed February 21, 1621. She subsequently married Pilgrim Edward Winslow. [18] [20] Resolved White, 5, son, wife was Judith Vassal. [18] Peregrine White, son.
Robert Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 – May 1, 1889) was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. [1] Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy.
The unidentified 1830 author encouraged youth to adopt the virtues of prayer, organized religion, family faith and public outreach.
The Embarkation of the Pilgrims, 1843, US Capitol Rotunda. Myles and Rose Standish are prominently depicted in the foreground on the right. On July 22, 1620 (Old Style date), the initial group of English Dissenters living in Leiden boarded the Speedwell, which was meant to accompany another ship to be hired in England.