The typical story goes that a "terrible storm" blew the pilgrims off course, but the real story is that the the Pilgrims wanted to land on Plymouth to start a Purtian colony that was only made of pure religious people.
Up a creek without a paddle
The Mayflower Compact
They set out for America to have free religion but ended up in Plymouth masachetts
The religious group known as the Pilgrims sought religious freedom from the Church of England.They had sought and secured a charter from King James to have a colony in the New World possessions of Great Britain. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, but due to storms, mis-navigated their direction. Their ship was the Mayflower, and instead of landing far to the south, they ended up on the coast near what is now the city of Boston, in 1620. They called their settlement Plymouth.
They made a few errors in their navigation. They were navigating by the stars; it's not like they had GPS.
Up a creek without a paddle
The Mayflower Compact
They set out for America to have free religion but ended up in Plymouth masachetts
The Pilgrims set up their colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As the colony formed it was under the command of Governor William Bradford.
Mayflower compact.
Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower
The religious group known as the Pilgrims sought religious freedom from the Church of England.They had sought and secured a charter from King James to have a colony in the New World possessions of Great Britain. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean, but due to storms, mis-navigated their direction. Their ship was the Mayflower, and instead of landing far to the south, they ended up on the coast near what is now the city of Boston, in 1620. They called their settlement Plymouth.
the mayflower compact because the English was not the written plan for the government and was not drawn up by the Plymouth colonists !
They made a few errors in their navigation. They were navigating by the stars; it's not like they had GPS.
where did the mayflower's passengers end up going ashore this is not the answer
William Bradford and a few other settlers settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December of 1620.
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