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The Mayflower set sail for America from Plymouth, England on June 6, 1620. The 100 foot ship carried 102 passengers and 30 crew members. The Mayflower landed at Cape Cod sometime around November 15, 1620.
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Actually, they set sail on only one ship, the Mayflower. You may be thinking of the Speedwell which brought some Pilgrims to Southampton harbor to board the Mayflower. You may also be thinking of the other ships that settled the Virginia colonies (before the Mayflower set sail and landed in Plymouth). The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery all set sail from England together and arrived in what is now Virginia in 1607. The Mayflower (1620), the Fortune (1621) the Anne (1623) and the Little James (1623) all went to Plymouth and those on board were the early Plymouth Colony settlers.
The Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower on September 16, 1620, from Plymouth, England. The 102 passengers along with around 30 crew members arrived in the New World in November, 1620.
The group that set sail on the Mayflower was known as the Pilgrims. They were seeking religious freedom and established the Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. The Mayflower Compact was created as a governing document for the colony.
They hired the Speedwell in Holland and hired the Mayflower at London, although it was berthed at Southampton. The two ships set sail from Southampton, around August 5, 1620. It soon became evident that the Speedwell was leaking and not seaworthy, so they turned back and put in at Plymouth (in Devon, England). There, some Pilgrims transferred themselves and their goods to the Mayflower and some stayed behind. The Mayflower set sail from the port at Plymouth on September 6, 1620 and arrived at the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 11th; a voyage of 65 days.
the mayflower set sail September 6, 1620
The Puritans didn't go to Plymouth, they went to what is now Massachusetts Bay colony. They founded Plymouth, MA in 1620. Named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from whence the Mayflower set sail, it is the oldest continuously populated English settlement in the modern US.
The Mayflower originally departed from the English port of Southampton in August 1620, accompanied by a smaller vessel the Speedwell. Because the Speedwell was leaking, the ships were forced to return first to Dartmouth and then to Plymouth.The Mayflower finally set sail alone from Plymouth, England, in September 1620 for the 66-day voyage to the American site that the Puritan settlers also named Plymouth.
In 1620, the Mayflower set sail to America, hosting Puritans who aimed to establish a new, separate colony from the others. This colony was later named the Plymouth Colony because they landed on a land-form which was named Plymouth Rock (the rock can now be seen in Plymouth, Massachusetts).
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