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    Who Journeyed on the Mayflower?
    Who Journeyed on the Mayflower?
    Who Journeyed on the Mayflower?
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    Who Journeyed on the Mayflower?

    By Nicola Barber and HL Studios

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    How do we know about the people who journeyed on the Mayflower? Why did they cross the Atlantic, and what happened to them? This book shows how we know about the travelers and their ship from primary and other sources. It includes information on some historical detective work that has taken place, using documentary and archaeological evidence, that has enabled historians to piece together the fascinating story of the Mayflower.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9781484635551
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      Book preview

      Who Journeyed on the Mayflower? - Nicola Barber

      CONTENTS

      A NARROW ESCAPE

      WHAT WAS THE MAYFLOWER?

      WHY DID THEY GO?

      WHO TRAVELED ON THE MAYFLOWER?

      WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WERE THEY?

      WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM ON THE JOURNEY?

      WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AFTERWARD?

      WHY WAS THEIR JOURNEY SIGNIFICANT?

      TIMELINE

      GLOSSARY

      FIND OUT MORE

      INDEX

      Some words are shown in bold, like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

      A NARROW ESCAPE

      It is fall 1620. A tiny ship battles the waves on the vast Atlantic Ocean. It is crammed with people. They are constantly wet, and many are seasick. The weather is increasingly stormy and treacherous. At times, the wind is so strong that the crew members take in all the sails and simply allow the ship to drift—it is too dangerous to try to sail. On October 1, they are once again being battered by wind and waves when a cry goes up: Man overboard! One of the passengers, a man named John Howland, has slipped on the wet deck and fallen over the side. However, as he falls, he grabs a rope trailing in the sea. He holds on for dear life, although he is being half-drowned by the wild waves. As the icy water begins to numb his hands, he feels something grab at his clothes. Howland is hoisted back to safety with a long boat hook.

      HOW DO WE KNOW?

      After this narrow escape, Howland went on to live for another 50 years—unlike the majority of his fellow passengers. He was one of the Pilgrims, and the little ship was the Mayflower. This book tells the story of the Pilgrims—why they ended up crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, and what happened to them after they finally arrived on the shores of North America. But it also examines how we know about this voyage. What are the documents and objects that have allowed historians to piece together events that happened nearly 400 years ago?

      HISTORY DETECTIVES: WHAT IS A PRIMARY SOURCE?

      In history, a primary source is one that gives us firsthand information about an event or a particular period in time. Primary sources come in many different forms—they can be eyewitness accounts, sketches or paintings, documents such as wills or lists, or, from more recent times, photographs or films.

      This is an artist’s impression of the Mayflower at sea. No pictures of the ship exist, so historians and artists rely on descriptions from primary sources.

      MEET WILLIAM BRADFORD

      The account of Howland’s near-drowning is found in a journal entitled Of Plymouth Plantation by one of the Pilgrim leaders, William Bradford. We will find out a lot more about Bradford and about his history of the Pilgrims throughout this book. The document is a primary source that gives us important information about what happened to the Pilgrims. Below is a brief extract from Bradford’s description of Howland’s adventure. To make it easier to understand, some spellings have been changed from the original. For example, shipe has been changed to ship, and yonge to young:

      In a mighty storm, a lusty young man (called John Howland)…was, with a heel of the ship thrown into [the] sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the top-sail halliards [ropes], which hung over board… He held his hold…and then with a boat hook and other means got into the ship again, and his life saved…

      WHAT WAS THE MAYFLOWER?

      Where did the ship come from that carried the Pilgrims across the Atlantic Ocean? In the 16th and 17th centuries, Mayflower was a very common name for ships—in fact, at that time, there were Mayflowers sailing out of almost every port in England, Ireland, and Scotland. It took some detective work in the early 1900s by a naval historian named R. G. Marsden to uncover which of the many Mayflowers was the correct one.

      The home of Christopher Jones, master of the Mayflower, still stands in the town of Harwich, on England’s east coast.

      TO THE ARCHIVES

      There are a few clues from primary sources such as William Bradford’s journal about the size and the layout of the ship. Bradford also tells us that the ship’s

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