Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Mayflower had set sail with three pregnant mothers: Elizabeth Hopkins, Susanna White, and Mary Allerton. They had endured long delays, seasickness, and cold weather, but they had helped the carpenter repair the ship’s fractured beam. #2 The English Puritans who founded the colony of Virginia Company in 1607 were a very different sort of group than the typical noblemen, craftsmen, and servants who had founded Jamestown in Virginia. They were mostly families who were willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased. #3 The Puritans believed that they were pilgrims on a divinely ordained mission to establish a Christian colony in America. They were well prepared to face the difficulties of a strange and hard land, and they were knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond. #4 The Pilgrims were a group of English people who were almost always on the move. They had lost their homes and their land, and they were searching for a new place to live. William Bradford was among the first to write about their journey.