THE MAYFLOWER DEPARTED ON THIS DAY IN 1620

Find out about when the Mayflower set sail 400 years ago | Daily Echo

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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