The Mayflower, a leaky 80-foot-long British cargo ship carrying 102 passengers who were determined to build a new society "for the glory of God," departed from Plymouth, England on this day in ...

Four centuries after white Europeans stepped off the Mayflower and onto ... trace their families back to the passengers who boarded the ship in Plymouth, England, in 1620 to flee religious ...

Passengers on the Mayflower included men, women and children from England and the city of Leiden ... It was time for the Leiden Separatists to leave - so they bought a small ship called the ...

On December 18, 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Harbor ... The original party who were looking to leave England were seeking religious freedom and escape from persecution.

In the movie, only 40 of the Mayflower’s 102 passengers are separatists from the Church of England, fleeing King James I’s persecution. Even those refugees emerge as an earthy, red-blooded lot.

Americans whose roots are traceable back to New England often believe themselves to be descended from Mayflower passengers. The American Revolution began 156 years later, and the Constitutional ...