The Sixty-Six-Foot Cargo Ship That Carried 102 English Separatists Across the Atlantic in 66 Days in 1620
The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth on 16 September 1620 with 102 passengers — about 41 of them religious Separatists from the Leiden Dutch exile community, the rest paying passengers — and 30 crew. The 66-day crossing landed at Provincetown Harbor on 21 November 1620. The Mayflower Compact was drafted aboard the ship the same day before the passengers disembarked.
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