The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony 1620 P8

Last week we talked about the situation regarding the Pilgrims desperately needing a miracle due to the backbone of the Mayflower, the main beam being broken by a storm.

Back when the Pilgrims had been driven out of England and went to Holland, they began publishing materials for the congregation as well as other works explaining their religious beliefs to the public. Dutch officials, however, seeking to please the British, confiscated all their typesetting tools and materials to halt any further publications. The Pilgrims were left with a printing press, but no way to print anything on it. When they later loaded the ships to come to America, they strangely decided to bring that inoperative printing press with them on an already overcrowded ship.

CONTENT SOURCED FROM: "The American Story, the beginnings" by David Barton and Tim Barton