USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The pilgrims of the Mayflower were a group of around 100 people seeking religious freedom from the Church of England. However, pilgrims were not the only passengers on the Mayflower. Other Mayflower passengers included servants, contracted workers, and families seeking a new life in America.

Detailed explanation-2: -There were 102 passengers on the Mayflower including 37 members of the separatist Leiden congregation who would go on to be known as the Pilgrims, together with the non-separatist passengers.

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: -Mayflower, in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.