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Mayflower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Mayflower was the ship which transported the Pilgrims from Plymouth, England to "North Virginia" (which later became part of the United States of America) in 1620, leaving Plymouth on September 6 and dropping anchor near Cape Cod on November 11 (both dates according to the Old Style or the Julian Calendar). The passengers on the Mayflower were the earliest permanent settlers in New England, and so later many members of society took great interest in tracing their ancestry back to one of these. At least between 1609 and 1623 it was mastered by Christopher Jones, who was Captain on the transatlantic voyage, and based in Rotherhithe. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayflower   (771 words)

The Mayflower II Ship at Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts Mayflower II was built from 1955-57 in the town of Brixham, in Devon, England by the skilled shipwrights at the Upham Shipyard. Mayflower II is a reproduction of the type of ship that sailed from England in 1620. Next to Mayflower II, a dockside exhibit traces the history and origins of the ship's passengers, and describes the navigation techniques the crew used to find their way at sea. www.plimoth.org /visit/what/mayflower2.asp   (2324 words)

MSN Encarta - Mayflower (vessel) Mayflower (vessel), vessel in which the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in 1620. The patent for their settlement in the New World, issued by the London Company, was no longer binding, and some among the passengers desired total independence from their shipmates. Peregrine White, the first European child born in New England, was delivered on the Mayflower in the interim. encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761573892   (411 words)

Triumph Mayflower, clasic British car of the 50's The Triumph Mayflower was unveiled to invited members of the Technical Press and the Company's Distributors on the 23 October 1949 in a specially decorated section of the main canteen at the Banner Lane factory. The Mayflower has never been the most popular of cars and it has been said that 34,000 were sold only because in the fifties cars, of any type, were in short supply. It is further said that Sir John chose the Mayflower name with the intention of appealing to the many Americans who were descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers who had landed in Massachusetts in 1620. www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~nicouls/triumphmayflower.htm   (4294 words)

The Ship "Mayflower" This is the last mention in the historical record of what we can positively identify as Captain Jones's Mayflower, presumably also the Mayflower of the Pilgrim fathers, barring acquisition of another one by Jones after the fateful voyage. One researcher investigated a claim that the pillars in the old schoolroom at Abingdon in Berkshire were either the masts of the Mayflower or those of William III's ship of 1688, the Brielle, and, after much painstaking measuring, concluded that whatever they were they could not be from the Mayflower. This Mayflower is described as being about two hundred tons, and when she was riding at anchor in Boston Harbor on October 6, 1652, Webber sold one sixteenth of her "for good and valuable considerations" to one John Pinchon of Springfield, Massachusetts. www.americanrevolution.org /may4.html   (3413 words)

Plymouth Guide - The Mayflower II The Mayflower was originally scheduled for landfall in the "northern" part of Virginia, but the explorers found themselves floundering on the shoals off Chatham at the elbow of Cape Cod. The Mayflower was only 90 feet from stem to stern and 25 feet at her widest point. Today, seeing the Mayflower II, its replica, it is hard to imagine that 102 men, women and children, with a crew of 25 lived together for two months at sea. www.plymouthguide.com /mayflower.html   (267 words)

Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Mayflower Mayflower's charter was eventually arranged through the Merchant Adventurers, which included representatives of the Virginia Company, the London Company, and the Plymouth Company, all of which could make land grants in the Americas. While the vessel may be the same Mayflower as one mentioned in London port documents of 1606 belonging to Robert Bonner of Leigh, the record becomes clearer in 1609 when there is mention of a Mayflower of London, Christopher Jones master and part owner. With a lateen mizzen, she sets courses and single topsails on the main and foremasts, and in place of fore-and-aft headsails (a later development), she set a single square spritsail from the bowsprit. college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_060300_mayflower.htm   (1045 words)

The Mayflower, The Journey, compact and thanksgiving This is Mike Haywoood's latest painting of the Mayflower at dawn on the 11th November 1620, as she is about to anchor for the first time after her arduous voyage in what is now called Provincetown harbor. You'll find out about the Mayflower Compact (said to be the foundation of the American Constitution), the journey of the Mayflower, the ship, itself and what the Pilgrim Fathers achieved. This would be about the same spot that the Mayflower would have been tied up alongside prior to its fêteful journey. www.mayflowersteps.co.uk /mayflower_index.html   (784 words)

Billing Boats - 801 Mayflower Mayflower II was built in l957 in Brixham, Devon and sailed to the USA, where it is now permanently anchored as a gift to the American nation. After 67 days at sea, the Mayflower cast anchor at the port later to be called Provincetown - almost 200 miles further north than planned. The first information about the Mayflower dates from 6th September 1620. www.billingboats.com /gb/mayflower.html   (98 words)

untitled page Following extensive regulatory changes affecting the moving industry in the early 1980s, Mayflower, like a number of other major movers, underwent ownership changes, and in March 1995, it was acquired by UniGroup, Inc., a transportation and relocation company based in suburban St. Louis, Mo., where Mayflower now also maintains its headquarters. Mayflower Transit has been moving families around the country and around the world since 1927 with great care and expertise. Seventy-eight years later, Mayflower Transit is one of the nation's largest movers of household goods and other commodities requiring specialized handling. www.megamove.com /van_lines/mayflower.php   (348 words)

The Mayflower Society: General Society of Mayflower Descendants More than one hundred years ago, a group of descendants of the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, saw the need for a national society to honor their memory. It is the goal of The Mayflower Society to join together people who share this heritage and to carry on the memory of our Pilgrim ancestors. The Mayflower Society: General Society of Mayflower Descendants www.mayflower.org   (105 words)

Mayflower Hotel The Mayflower Hotel is a Historic Hotels of America member, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Franklin Roosevelt lived in Suite 776 during his pre-inaugural period and dictated his famous, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" speech there. The decision to restore the hotel emphasizes the Mayflower's historic ongoing position as an architectural and social landmark in the capital city. www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc59.htm   (201 words)

Mayflower In addition to the MAYFLOWER`s own long-boat, which was carried in the waist, the pilgrims had a shallop, a boat perhaps some 30 feet in length, which had been cut down for stowage. MAYFLOWER was a common name for a ship but, from the records of the Port of London, the Customs account and the Admiralty Court records, it has been possible to identify some 22 of the voyages of a MAYFLOWER with a master named Christopher Jones. The MAYFLOWER, which he left to his widow, was allowed to decay, "in ruinis" according to the Admralty Court Act Book in 1624. www.cronab.demon.co.uk /mf2.htm   (422 words)

Mayflower, Arkansas AR, city profile (Faulkner County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Mayflower was $19,889, compared with $21,587 nationally. Median rent in Mayflower, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $312. Mayflower, AR Mayflower is a city in Faulkner County, in the Little Rock metro area. www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=11616&NF=1   (459 words)

Mayflower Quilters' Guild Mayflower Quilters’ Guild participates in various community activities in an ongoing basis by making and donating cuddle quilts for: Byrony House, Police Cars in HRM, the Habitat, the IWK, the Mental Health Foundation and other charitable agencies. Mayflower Quilters' Guild meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month (September through June except December) at 7:30 p.m. All members, individual or Chapter/Guild, are welcome to participate in any Mayflower activity. mayflowerquilters.tripod.com   (175 words)

PlYMOUTH MA - ITS HISTORY AND PEOPLE Although the Mayflower's captain and part-owner, Christopher Jones, had threatened to leave the Pilgrims unless they quickly found a place to land, the ship remained at Plymouth during the first terrible winter of 1620-21, when half of the colonists died. In 1957 a close replica of the Mayflower, the Mayflower II, wasbuilt in 1957 by England as a gift to America and sailed from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth,Mass., where it is now on view. At the English port of Plymouth some of the Speedwell's passengers were regrouped on the Mayflower, and on September 16, the historic voyage began. pilgrims.net /plymouth/history/mayflower.html   (848 words)

Mayflower --  Encyclopædia Britannica The Mayflower Compact bound the signers into a body politic for the purpose of forming a government and pledged them... Among the Pilgrims who arrived in America on the Mayflower in 1620 was John Alden, a cooper (barrelmaker). The compact resulted from the fear that some members of the company might leave the group and settle on their own. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051594?source=RSSOTD   (766 words)

The Boston Insider: Travel Tips on Getting the Most Out of Boston The Mayflower II is an English-built full-scale replica of the vessel that crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1620. Summary: the Mayflower II is a replica of the famous ship that brought the Pilgrims across the Atlantic Ocean more than 375 years ago. In September 1620 a three masted merchant ship, the Mayflower, left Plymouth, England in its third attempt to carry over 100 hundred men, women and children, as well as all the provisions, tools and livestock they would need to make a new life in the New World. www.theinsider.com /Boston/attractions/2mayflower.htm   (754 words)

The Mayflower's Voyage CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF THE VOYAGE: There is only one primary source account in existence that describes events that occurred while the Mayflower was at sea. Only one other contemporary account of the Mayflower's voyage exists, and though it was not written by a Mayflower passenger, it was written in 1624 by Captain John Smith (the same one "rescued" by Pocahontas), based on second hand information he had heard, or read in letters sent back to England. While the Mayflower was at sea, Elizabeth Hopkins gave birth to a son which she named Oceanus. members.aol.com /calebj/voyage.html   (860 words)

Mayflower Tours : Discounts Up to 5% off Mayflower Vacations, Mayflower Travel Mayflower vacations is excited to be featuring their travelers favorite destinations along with some remarkable new ones. Mayflower vacations provides great tours through out the world. Mayflower Tours is a professional tour operator handling individual and group escorted tour arrangements. www.affordablemayflowertours.com   (238 words)

Nova Scotia/Nouvelle-Ecosse/The Mayflower/La fleur de mai From the 1830s through the end of the century, the emblematic mayflower was celebrated in songs, poetry, and political oratory. As far back as 1820 the mayflower emerged as a native patriotic symbol, suggesting high achievement in the face of adversity. In 1901 by an Act of the Legislature, the Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens), commonly known as the mayflower, was declared to be the Provincial Flower of Nova Scotia, and to have been so from time immemorial. www.gov.ns.ca /legislature/HOUSE_OF_ASSEMBLY/Symbols/may.htm   (326 words)

Hawaii Mayflower Society To cooperate with the General Society of Mayflower Descendants and with the affiliated State Societies composing it, in united effort for furtherance of the ends aforesaid. Lewis E. Neff, the historian general -- became "The State Society of Mayflower Descendants in Hawaii" on August 30, 1958. Notwithstanding any statement of purposes or powers aforesaid, this organization shall not, except to an insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or exercise any powers that are not in furtherance of its specific and primary purpose. www.geocities.com /Heartland/Ridge/4602   (245 words)

mayflower In Southampton, as well as the obvious Mayflower Park right on the Waterfront, there is the Mayflower Memorial on the other side of the road which was erected in 1913, and the Mayflower Theatre in Commercial Road.. It was the "Mayflower" company, however, which founded the first New England colony, and despite Plymouth town usually being credited with the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers for the New World, the departure port for this courageous endeavour was Southampton. Southampton also has a plaque which was presented to the Mayor in 1970 by the Society of Mayflower Descendants to commemorate 350 years from the date of the sailing of the Speedwell and Mayflower. www.southernlife.org.uk /mayflower.htm   (1869 words)

The MayFlower Compact The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. The Mayflower Compact, which remained in effect until 1691, was he first written attampt at self government in American History." On November 21, 1620 the Mayflower reached the Cape Cod coast of America. score.rims.k12.ca.us /score_lessons/symbols_freedom/pages/mayflower.html   (473 words)

PlYMOUTH MA - ITS HISTORY AND PEOPLE The Mayflower's passengers were first described as the Pilgrim Fathers in 1799. Arriving on the Mayflower with the first settlers, he initially concentrated on colonial defense and Indian relations. Because they had no legal right to settle in the region, they drew up the Mayflower Compact, creating their own government. pilgrims.net /plymouth/history   (1465 words)

Mayflower Steps, photos and history of Plymouth Past and Present There the Mayflower Compact, the first democratic document written in America, was composed and signed. The Mayflower made its first landfall at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts on the 11th November after 66 days at sea. This Tablet was erected in the Mayoralty of J T Bond 1891, to commemorate the Departure, and the visit to Plymouth in July of that Year of a number of their Descendants and Representatives www.mayflowersteps.co.uk   (345 words)

Mayflower - New Customers Site As part of Mayflower's continual commitment to providing the highest level of service for our customers, we have a dedicated section of this website that is tailored specifically for your requirements and which provides information about products, services and support. Mayflower are very pleased to announce that they have recently become an Avaya Silver Partner. Whether you are looking for a telephone system for a small branch office or an integrated communications platform for an international organisation - and if you need a whole new call centre system or just a new handset, Mayflower has the experience, knowledge and technical expertise to deliver the right solution for your requirements. www.mayflowergroup.co.uk   (214 words)

MayFlower Hotel The Mayflower features 85 guest rooms and suites, business facilities, a restaurant with room service, the famous English pub "Duke of Wellington" and a rooftop swimming pool with sundeck. Its location in the center of Beirut is convenient for the business and holiday traveler alike. and much praised by European travel writers,The Mayflower has been known as a smaller hotel of higher standards. www.mayflower.com.lb   (77 words)

FLORIDA STATE MAYFLOWER SOCIETY Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Florida, organized August 7, 1937 with an average membership of 1,163 consisting of fifteen colonies located around the state. The applicant must have a proven ancestry to a Mayflower passenger, and the sponsoring relative must be a member of the Florida Society. Please sign the Mayflower Society in the State of Florida Guestbook www.geocities.com /flmayflower   (554 words)

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