USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly half of the Pilgrims and Puritans died during the voyage. Only 50 of the original 102 passengers survived the first winter.

Detailed explanation-2: -Only 53 passengers and half the crew survived. Women were particularly hard hit; of the 19 women who had boarded the Mayflower, only five survived the cold New England winter, confined to the ship where disease and cold were rampant.

Detailed explanation-3: -Only five of the 18 survived that first, harsh winter. Peregrine was the second baby born on the Mayflower’s historic voyage-after Elizabeth Hopkins gave birth to Oceanus whilst the ship was actually sailing across the Atlantic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Of the 102 original Mayflower passengers, only 44 survived. Again like in Jamestown, the kindness of the local Native Americans saved them from a frosty death. The Pilgrims’ remarkable courage was displayed the following spring.

Detailed explanation-5: -The following year, those 53 who survived, celebrated the colony’s first fall harvest along with 90 Wampanoag Native American people, an occasion declared in centuries later the first American Thanksgiving.