The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, bound for the
Americas with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia,
where the colonists, half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs. had
had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy
weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course,
and on November 21 the “Pilgrims” reached Massachusetts, where
they founded the first permanent European settlement in New
England in late December.
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