Mayflower

The English merchant ship that carried about 102 passengers, including the English Separatists known as the Pilgrims, to New England in 1620.

Plymouth Colony: An English colony established in present-day Massachusetts in 1620 by settlers who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. The ship's passengers founded this colony after landing at Plymouth.
Mayflower voyage: The 1620 transatlantic crossing that brought the Mayflower's passengers from England to New England. This crossing is the ship's defining journey.
Wampanoag: An Indigenous people of present-day southern New England with communities and political relationships predating English colonization. Wampanoag communities lived in the region where the Mayflower's passengers settled.
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony): The English Separatists who settled Plymouth Colony after crossing the Atlantic in 1620. Their migration gives the Mayflower its enduring place in American historical memory.
Jamestown settlement: The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in Virginia in 1607. Jamestown preceded the Mayflower by thirteen years and had different aims and sponsors.
English Separatists: English Protestants who sought to separate from the Church of England and establish independent congregations. Separatists formed the religious core of the Mayflower's passenger group.
Speedwell: A ship that was intended to accompany the Mayflower but proved unfit for the transatlantic voyage in 1620. Its repeated leaks forced the expedition to abandon it and delay departure.
Massasoit: The Wampanoag leader, also known as Ousamequin, who formed an alliance with Plymouth Colony. His diplomacy shaped the colony's early relations with Indigenous neighbors.
Mayflower mythology: Simplified national narratives that portray the Mayflower settlers as founders of a unified American tradition. Public memory often turns the ship's complex history into a story of national origins.
Mayflower Compact: A 1620 agreement by male passengers aboard the Mayflower to form a civil body politic and obey its laws. The compact was created aboard the ship, but it was an agreement rather than the vessel itself.

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