The Pilgrims & Plymouth Colony 1620 P6

When the Pilgrims’ transportation was reduced to a single ship, the Mayflower…space became a problem. The Mayflower was unable to carry all passengers from both vessels but several from the Speedwell transferred to the Mayflower and the rest remained behind, hoping to come later.

The Mayflower finally set sail for America in September 1620, now several months behind schedule, bearing 102 “Pilgrims and strangers.” This phrase is a Biblical quote from I Peter 2:11, the verse from which the Pilgrims took their name. But that ship carried much more than the Pilgrims: it also carried the Bible-based principles they had learned - principles that were to become the seeds of the greatest and freest nation the world has ever know.

Content sourced from "The American Story, the beginnings" by David Barton and Tim Barton