The Pilgrims
Guide Note:
- The Pilgrims left England in two ships: The Speedwall and the Mayflower. But the Speedwall started to leak and was finally declared unseaworthy.
"FastFacts:"
- The First Thanksgiving the Pilgrims and Indians ate turkey, deer, berries, squash, cornbread, and beans.
- The Wampanoagos Indians lived in small villages along the coastline of both Massachusettes and Rhode Island.
- In a Pilgrim household the adults sat down to eat and the children and servants waited on them.
- The Mayflower carried 102 passengers, and about half of the Pilgrims died during the first winter.
- Children and adults only took baths a few times a year. They thought bathing was unhealthy.
- The Pilgrims didn't use forks; they ate with spoons, knives, and their fingers.
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The Pilgrims Timeline
- 1616-1618: A plague wipes out entire Wampanoag villages in the the Massachusetts Bay Area, including Patuxet.
- 1619: The Pilgrims obtain a land patent from London Virginia Company, hoping to establish a colony in America where they can practice their own religion
- 1620: September 6th,The Mayflower leaves Plymouth Harbor in England, destined for Virgina.
- 1620: October, Violent autumn storms damage the ship and blow it off course. John Howland, who will later become one of the colony's assistent governors pitched overboard at one point but it rescued.
- 1620: November 9th, Land is sighted, and the first landing is made at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- 1620: The Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists.
- 1620: November 11th, the Mayflower Compact is signed by the 41 men, establishing a form of local government in which the colonists agree to abide by majority rule and to cooperate for the general good of the colony.
- 1621: One of the first treaties between colonists and Native American is signed as the Plymouth Pilgrims enact a peace pact with the Wampanoag Trail, with the aid of Squanto, an english speaking Native American.
- 1621: November, First Pilgrim Thanksgiving.
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