On 16 September 1620, the ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth - on board were more than 100 passengers all hoping to start a new life in America. These early settlers would become ...

The Mayflower had no cabins or beds; passengers berthed below deck wherever they could find space. The voyage was fraught with risk: if rough seas didn’t take them, pirates might. If the ...

The nonprofit national General Society of Mayflower Descendants was founded in 1897 and headquartered in Plymouth, ...

“This is part of what created the vulnerability that allowed Mayflower passengers to have a place to be in Massachusetts,” says Hartman Deetz, 45, a Mashpee Wampanoag artist, educator and activis ...