Mayflower Background Summaries
Mayflower-Background, Context and Relevance
Before the Sailing of the Mayflower
Changing Time
Europeans to America Prior to the Pilgrims
Follow the Money
John Smith
Netherlands
Power of the Press
Preparing for Life in the Colonies in the Early Years
Scrooby Manor House
Stephen Hopkins
William Brewster and the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
Sailing of the Mayflower
Billingtons
Dogs on the Mayflower
Dorothy Bradford
First to Land
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower Passenger List (By Household-Noting Survivors and Early Deaths)
Mayflower – Passengers and Crew
Mayflower, Her Captain and Crew
More Children and the Mayflower
No Pastor was Aboard the Mayflower
Overboard
Pilgrim versus Puritan
Strangers
Winslows and Whites
Landing and Settling at Plymouth
First Encounter
First Church in Plymouth
First Thanksgiving
General Sickness
Meeting House
Plymouth
Life in the Colonies
Allerton Negotiates a New Agreement with the Merchant Adventurers (1626)
Arrows and Snake Skin
Beer
Common Course and Condition
Congregational Church
Dividing the Land and Development of Towns
Division of Cattle
Freeman
Hobbamock
Early Economic Issues
American Postal Service
Blessings of the Bay
Corn
Fur Trade
Timber
Wampum
Whaling
Growth of the Colonies
Blacks in Plymouth
Duxbury – Plymouth Colony’s Second Town
First Catholics
Great Migration
Old Comers
Plymouth Absorbed into Province of Massachusetts
Popham Colony
Quakers
Social/Political Issues
Body of Liberties
Dominion of New England
English Civil Wars
King Philip’s War
Lyford and Oldham
Morton and the Maypole at Merrymount
New England Confederation
Pequot War
Pilgrims Were Loyal to the King
Salem Witch Trials
Thirteen Colonies