USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -6. Nearly half of the Pilgrims and Puritans died during the voyage. Only 50 of the original 102 passengers survived the first winter. “They weren’t thinking about colonizing, ” says Beiler.

Detailed explanation-4: -How many descendants of the Mayflower are alive today? According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, there may be as many as 35 million living descendants of the Mayflower worldwide and 10 million living descendants in the United States.