What Was Life Like For Pilgrims Onboard The Mayflower? | Journey Into Unknown | Absolute History
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- For many Americans, the journey of the Mayflower in 1620 symbolizes the birth of their nation. Led by William Bradford, the Pilgrim Fathers traversed the Atlantic to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in search of religious freedom. To this day, the Pilgrim Fathers are a glorified symbol of American virtue and Thanksgiving. In this film, we delve into the significance of their story for America and wider religious history, as well as their conflict and eventual treaty with the Native Americans.
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William Bradford was my 9th great grandfather. I share this along with thousands but I’m still very proud.
My ancestor _Stephen Hopkins_ knew your ancestor lol
William Bradford was my ancestor, as well.
My 11th grandfather was a passenger on the Mayflower and the 12th signer of the Mayflower Compact. Thank for sharing!!!
Must be proud his lineage ended up as a Faze clown
Do better
William Bradford was one of my 9th great grandfather's. My 7th grade grandmother, Alice Ripley, was the daughter of [William's] daughter, Hannah Bradford. Hannah was the first physician in the Plymouth colony. She treated whites and natives, and saved many lives.
I descended from other Mayflower passengers as well.
Another 9th great grandfather was in the Battle at Mytick Fort. He was a founder of Norwich Connecticut.
His grandson is my ancestor who married Alice Ripley.
Nice to meet you cousin. Bradford was my 9th too. Alice Ripley is my 6th great aunt. 😀 I also found the connection to Winslow, Sampson and I think Brewster for a cousin relationship.
My 10th great grandmother is Mary chilton 🙌
William Bradford was my 11th great grandfather. What faith he had to endure such a trip!
Mine as well! Have you tried joining the Mayflower Society?
Took my aunt from Martha's Vineyard 45years to research my grandfather's family tree ; traces back to William Bradford.
hello cousin he is mine too through his oldest son from his second marriage.
My main lineage goes back through the Native Americans who helped the colonists. The history is a vastly different version from my ancestors' points of view.
Indians weren't the original settlers here either.
@@lgaines4086 A comprehensive reading course could benefit you.
Are you able to share the story from your ancestors POV? Or do you have a good video to recommend? Would be good to see this from both the native and settler perspective
I would love to hear your POV
@@lgaines4086 Who were?
That must've totally screwed with the pilgrims heads when the first Indian encountered started speaking English asking for beer...lol
I’m actually a descendant of George Sowle/Soule through my grandmother. Each of us have been passed a binder through the generations of the entire family tree along with copies of the accompanying documentations through the years. I love learning more about them, even if George was an indentured servant.
It truely is a miracle that he survived especially in view of being an indentured servant. I've gotten a few snotty responses but I don't care. Someone is always unhappy. If you want I can have my daughter try to get in touch with you regarding this. She's out of town for the next few weeks. This is one thing that really perks her up.
@@sarahwright4104 I think I understand angry comments when everything is viewed backward, but hindsight is 20/20 with history. I think it’s unimportant to be angry about history and sit with it, as opposed to recognizing what happened and being active in the endeavor for the future to prevent similar occurrences. No one has control over their ancestors and their actions, but we do have control of understanding ourselves and our histories to make a difference in the present. So let us all be curious about where we come from without fear of retribution :) I doubt George went on the journey with intent of killing natives.
Also, while it’s still totally immoral, it’s in part human/animal nature-ingroup versus outgroup etc. native Americans are hardly the first and last to be a slaughtered group as sad as it is. Look at Ukraine versus Russia right now, for example. Like I said, doesn’t make it right, but doesn’t make the situation unique regarding humans.
Hey, Nurse family here. Our ancestors could have met... So perhaps, once again... bless to you and your family. Via hundreds of years of time. :)
@@MrWolfheart111 Lol I'm sure they knew each other.
@@nataliefischer6265 i can agree with that. It's sort of like being blamed for slavery when your ancestors owned no slaves, and some died fighting for their freedom. I won't apologize for my white skin. We are responsible for our actions not the actions of others.
Some of my ancestors were on the Mayflower just watching and seeing this gives me a good perspective of how my distant relatives had to go through to come to America although then part of my family immigrated to Canada to Canada that's where I was born this was like three four generations ago when my family immigrated to Canada.
When the Mayflower pilgrims reached land, my ancestors were on the shore ready to greet them.
I doubt there standing their like a welcome committee ready to greet invaders.🤔
They weren't the original settlers though.
@@lgaines4086 you posted that same comment elsewhere so what point are you trying to say? That's it's irrelevant the treatment that the natives that were here at that moment and have been for quite a long time, were deserving of what was about to happen to them?
You should have killed them then the colonists treated the natives so poorly and took advantage of their generosity
@@lgaines4086 so if the Chinese land in California and start building houses then it's okay because the people there aren't the original settlers?
My 11th great grandfather was an indentured servant who came over on the Mayflower. George Soule.
You can find a wiki page of him.
@@dukejohn2898 Thank you, but my daughter does geneology and has 1-2 books on the decedants of George Soule. I'm proud of him for having the fortitude when so many other did no survive. What a time that must have been for all of them. Thank you again for your information.
My 11th great grandfather was William Bradford....what a miracle they even survived!
@@Grace2Hope very true. Things looked very bleak.
I am too! My family has kept documentation on him as well! I’m part of the 14th generation. It would be so neat to compare notes!
I been born and raised in Massachusetts and Plymouth plantation is my favorite place to visit I can't wait to bring my kids this November I home school and this is my favorite thing to research about history
My aunt in Martha's Vineyard researched my grandparents geanology chart 45 years.
Governor Williams Bradford is bloodline on my grandfather's side. In my great great grandmothers bible is a quote -
we traveled from far away lands, but God has guided us thru,to him we give thanks.
these ppl were brave to get on a boat go across a ocean to a new land
i loved what that native american gentleman said at the end. '' I wish I could go back in time, so I could warn my people about what's to come'' well said, sir. well said!
There is still plenty of land, he can go back to living like his ancestors: perpetually technologically stagnant, stone age, cannibalistic, savages.
@@stephenbiggins9114 They're not savages they're highly skilled intelligent human beings.
Lmfao as if it would change anything. They didn't even know how to tame horses until Europeans came to the America's they were destined go lose the land to someone eventually. Glad it was us.
The confederation of the original 13 colonies and the later US constitution democratic principles were influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy so they couldn't have been so primitive
@@monacoofthebluepacific2571 If you were alive then, you would've had the same beliefs. You would look at their way of life as being "less than" and "savage". And in a way, compared to all of what they had in Europe (at that time)-They were quite savage...Its absolutely amazing to me how people today "judge yesterday's men by today's standards". Smh. Once one does that, they lose all sense on the meaning of history.
Reminds me of the stories of coffin ships leaving Ireland during the famine maybe you should do a video on that
Yeah, they definitely SHOULD, but THAT would go against the whole "ohhhh, I beez soooo oppressed... " bullshyt narrative these scamming BLM 🤡s try to push... They seem to FORGET that while they're screaming "muh oppreshun!" that there were MANY other groups of people who suffered WAY more than black people...
I mean it isn't like:
- Over 1 MILLION (to this day, NO ONE actually knows just HOW MANY) Irish bodies weren't taken away by coffin ships & just DUMPED in the ocean WITHOUT proper funeral rites or a grave you could visit...
- the 1st British invasion of Northern Ireland wasn't in 1137 ad...
- the 2nd british/Scottish invasion of Northern Ireland wasn't in 1278 ad & the a-holes HAVN'T LEFT YET - 500 YEARS LATER...
- they didn't target CHILDREN & burn children alive, JUST to avoid prisoners (🤬 Cromwell was a walking war crime AND a murdering bastaard 🤬)
- indentured servants didn't have it WAYYYY WORSE once they signed that 7 year contract. You never hear about a slave being beat to death, because the people who PAID for that slave wanted their $s worth. But hey, indentured servants were FREE & LEGALLY BOUND by contract, so it was all perfectly LEGAL to beat them TO DEATH, which happened on MANY occasions (go read Mary Dyer's court case where she was 8 months pregnant & the woman who held her contract took a red-hot frying pan & beat her until her skull was caved in, JUST because Mary saw the woman's watch ⌚️ falling out of her pocket & about to shatter on a stone floor & tried to stop it...) 🤦♂️🤯 - the woman who bashed her head in got off SCOT FREE in court...
But oh hey, let's all shout some clown ass fake shyt like "BLM" in honor of a bunch of hood-rats who shot at cops & got their punk assses gunned down or died of a fentanyl overdose... Gimme a damn break - the importance of ALL human life was NEVER a question...
@@Andy_Babb nooo, you mistake intent 🤦♂️🤯🪦... what I was saying is NONE of these channels have the balls to talk about certain subjects, EVEN as a documentary... They try to avoid things & we know damn well that these things are WELL documented as fact...
@@Andy_Babb Ships carrying dead people.... yeah they are related and it makes sense to be reminded of such a thing.
@@ChristelVinot they weren't called coffin ships because they transported bodies, they were called coffin ships because your bed was the size of a coffin and a lot of people died onboard
@@padraig6200 well then that's even MORE similar to the thing
This is uncanny. Im in the process of researching topics and themes for a podcast I want to start and not only am I working on some Mayflower passengers but I also listed your channel as inspiration 🥺🥺 ive downloaded this and hope to soon be creating wonderful history content 🙌🙌🙌
You should do a podcast on ads. I mean, this channel is overwhelmingly ads and minimal documentary.
If you do a podcast, you should make sure you video it and put them on TH-cam. It’s really hard for me to find good history content on here so I would definitely follow you 😊
Please amke sure to get both sides of a story and please think of covering metacoms war (aka king phillips war).
Great informative documentary, watching from Nairobi Kenya
I wonder if they would of been appalled by the actions of their descendants and how far they seem to have drifted from the ideals they started with.
The current fanatical evangelist/Republican nutters are very much on par with the Separatist/Puritans aka "Pilgrims. They would most approve.
@Alan Probably not.
Alan No, because 19:30 they regarded the land as “empty”. They didn’t regard the natives had already occupied there.
Just because they don’t see them, doesn’t mean it’s ‘empty’.
The “wrong” already started from root. 🤔
@@real_hello_kitty same with abortion...
@@alicelong3613 What does it have thing to do with that? You are talking an unrelated topic.
I said the “wrong” started from the in the root. Catholic don’t believe in s__x outside marriage. So if you do it, u know that’s the root. Everything else is the side effects of the root cause.
That’s why zip up ⬆️ your pants, you’ll be okay. Address the raipest, not the raip vecteem.😉
Burial hill is not the first graveyard of the colony. The first graveyard is near the coast. Burial hill was originally a fort. There's even a monument on the original graveyard stating it's the original graveyard.
I understand that, during the first year, when 50% of the Pilgrims died, they were buried in the night outside the compound. It was a covert operation. A hidden secret thing so those first graves are probably lost to history.
@@goodwillbunny5773 no, the original burial ground was where the ones who died during the first winter were buried. Prior to what you are talking about. There's a monument at the first burial ground
That'd be the hill, on Water St. next to Leyden St...where the first homes were. Being mere yards from the water, no wonder they died of the cold. Coldest spot in the whole Town!
Having lived near Jamestown and seeing the replica ships there many times I was amazed at how they made it across the ocean. I know the mayflower landed in Massachusetts but there were ships that came to Virginia as well just as dingy.
My English ancestors came to Jamestown and my French ancestors came to Mankin, Virgina. They were Huguenots.
Resolved White is my 10th great grandfather and the boy who fell overboard (an indentured slave) John Howland was an 11th great uncle all on my mothers side. I just found all this out from Family Search genealogy site.
Then we are related in some way. Resolved White is my 9th great grandfather.
We are related, lol. Peregrine White, his brother, is my ancestor. So we are descendants of William Write and his wife, whose name escapes me at the moment.
@@builtontherockhomestead9390 hi cousin!
Thank you for interviewing an actual native.
18:50 They regarded the land as “empty”, ignoring the fact that the natives had already occupied the land.😳
I think they probably saw “the land” being empty as what they were able to see not having people on it while they stood there. What they could see with their eyes was empty. I’m not sure that they’d have had a concept of owning land that wasn’t built upon somehow. You go to a forest, see no one there, and think it’s empty. Nowadays, you might have it in your head that someone may own that land and there will be a deep somewhere. Back then, they didn’t have that in the not-yet-US, and so the records they’d have expected didn’t exist, and therefore, the land must have been available for the taking. They were ignorant. Those who came later were malicious.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria Yes. When they finally found out it’s not empty, they still insist it’s empty.
Someone still upset the people with sticks and arrows got conquered?
@@bruceleroy1683 Here’s the problem: the people with arrows didn’t perceive you as an enemy. They help you find the foods.
Yet u perceive em as “someone need to be conquered, and need to be made bow down and inferior“.
There’s a problem with your mindset.😲
@@real_hello_kitty Plimoth Plantation was a very small settlement built on an abandoned Wampanoag village. They didn't displace anyone. Literally half of them died. The remaining people were just trying to survive, and they formed an alliance with the Wampanoag.
that many people packed into a ship that small for weeks, it is a wonder they did not end up killing each other halfway across.
imagine be stuck on a ship that is only 80-100 feet long and 25 feet wide with about 132 other people.
Wasn't so bad, they weren't locked below deck on shelves and in chains
The ship was docked for months, because the bay was shallow, they used a “shallop” a small barge so the males disembarked, and the women stayed behind. The first winter killed many of them
@@curtisthomas2670 or thrown overboard 😖😭
I am a descendent of Thomas rogers. And 4 others. I love these kind of videos
One or two of my relatives was on that boat. I haven't seen a proper documentary on it in a while, thanks!
How much did your family make from the insane ads?
@@ivermectin7928 probably a good deal more than it costs to just pay for TH-cam premium instead of bitching about it.
I had 2- G.Grandfathers and a G.Grandmother on the Mayflower
@@jefferyeis9287 do you know their names? I just did my family tree and found out William Bradford was my 8th great grandfather….you and I might be related 😊
Me too. I’m going to have to start looking into this more. I know Holst was one last name of family. I do have a family tree book which starts there. Supposedly there is one before they came over.
About a year ago, I discovered I had an ancestor on the Mayflower. His name was Stephen Hopkins. Actually, I had four ancestors since he brought his wife and two daughters too. Hopkins was unique individual. He had tried to voyage to Jamestown about ten years before, but their ship leaked and sank in shallow water off Bermuda. After spending three months there, they were able to set sail in two boat for Jamestown. They all made it, largely though the efforts of Hopkins. He then spent three years there before he was called back to London to stand trial for mutiny, since it was he who rejected the captain's orders. However, on trial, other passengers came to his defense and he was found not guilty. While in Jamestown, he communicated with the native people. Fast forward ten years and he again decided to set sail for the new world, this time with his family, aboard the Mayflower. Their original plan was to go to the northern edge of Virginia, which at that time was around where New York is now. However, they decided to go north to avoid prosecution and drew up a compact, which was a form of government. When they landed on Cape Cod, Hopkins and five other men took a boat and explored the area. They finally decided on a protected area they named Plymouth. Since Hopkins had experience dealing with the indians, he proved to be important in the establishment of the colony. Bradford was the leader of the group, but within the group, were people who contributed their efforts and knowledge. Stephen Hopkins was but one. That is the story of my Mayflower ancestor.. It is estimated today there are 2 million people who have a connection to the Mayflower.. The Mayflower Society is located in Plymouth MA. You can contact them if you need help with your research.
Very interesting
@@FancySlut I think it was the mid 80's when a woman in Syracuse contacted my father about genealogical information. My father referred her to my brother who was into that kind of thing. This woman was in her 80's and had been doing researh on our family for her entire life. My original Martin ancestor had come here in 1827, and had 17 kids, 13 of whom lived, so she had a lot of work to do. As it turns out, his second wife was the "gold vein", as her ancestry ran deep into the core of American history. However, back when he married her, she was just an ordinary farm girl in Central NY, which was becoming settled. It seemed her ancestors had moved from CT, to NY for free land. Anyway, up until then, my mother used to say that my fathers ancestors were "a bunch of damn farmers". She took pride in the fact that she had a Rev. war colonel in her tree. Her mother discovered that when she had her ancestry researched so she could join the DAR, back in the 1920's. So, that is where it stood at the beginning of the 80's. Then, my brother started doing some digging further back, and I did research starting in 1998, when I bought my first computer. We turned up a lot more. For instance, on my mother's side, we had an ancestor who cofouned Concord, MA. On my father's side, we are direct descendant's of Roger Williams, the founder of RI. (the lady had this!). On his side too, we had a guy who would have been our uncle at the time, who was a jury foreman of the most noted Salem Witch Trial. I discovered we had a common ancestor with Benedict Arnold 100 years before he was born. On my mother's side, one of her ancestors founded the Willard Clock Co. which made most clocks in the US for about 200 years. Also on her side, her ancestor who came here from Ireland had a brother. It seems when they got off the boat, one went north, the other south. Her ancestor was a tinsmith and made tinware until the Civil War, when he was in the NY Artillary. He came back from the war but was dead within five years. I think it had something to do with possibly losing his hearing or PTSD. His brother went to Dalton GA, and founded a tin implement company and supplied the South with tinware. My Martin ancestor who settled in NY eventually became the largest hop producer in Oneida County. Hops were used in beer making. He did well it seems, until after the Civil War, when that business moved to WI. Probably a better climate for hops, barley and wheat. That is the reason why beer making went ot Milwaukee. So, those are the high points. However, tracing a Martin ancestor back, I had an ancestor who was the sister of John Locke, the philosopher. And Tracing another person back I have a tenative link with the royal family of France and Henry III King of France. If so, I can go back to Charlemagne, and from him back to the King of Cologne in the 2nd century. I wish all of this was worth money. I would be rich. It isn't worth a penny. As they say, that and a buck fifty will buy me a coffee at McDonald's.
@Philby Iasgair My common ancestor with Benedict was a Williams. I am a direct descendant of Roger Williams the founder of RI. My ancestors generally came from CT and moved upstate to Madison and Oneida counties. I had one who went to Otsego County. None of the ones with Mayflower connections had the Martin name. The Mayflower connections come from females with other maiden names. On my mother's side, I had an almost direct connection with the founder of Concord, MA, and the Willard Clock Co, which made most of the clocks in America for about 200 years. For most of my life, I'm 73, i didn't know anything about any of this. The second wife of the Martin who came here from England in 1827, married a Williams, who had deep colonial history in her. But then there was also the one who had Stephen Hopkins. Now, my brother says we have another one who was on the Mayflower. I have to get the details from him. I wish I could sell this stuff. I'm sure there are rich people out there who wish they had it in their ancestry. I could use the money! LOL.
I also go back to Stephen Hopkins (& his son Gyles), cousin.
@@richardquinn3578 He's a good one, if you are going to have one in your tree.
I think it is because some of the most peace-loving Europeans made it here first instead of another, lesser civilized group, that America became the greatest nation on Earth. The fact that the Native Americans lived peacefully alongside and cared for the new settlers for 50 years, shows that they both were a great people. It's not like the pilgrims were going to show up and say "my bad, didn't know there was somebody living here already. We'll go back to merry old England and find another place to go." C'mon man! You would be hard pressed to find any place on Earth that did not have a war for 50 years.
I grew up in Boston did the Mayflower a bunch and yeah wicked tiny boat
'MAYFLOWER,' BY NATHANIEL PHILBRICK is an eye opening book.
LOVE❤️💗 that book. Such great story telling!
Well being a direct descendent of Senior William Brewster, you guys made a valiant effort but left out a lot of details!
Well, it fills countless books! Good effort for short time! I have Bradford too.
It was 300 plus years ago. The truth lays within the pilgrims story and the natives story. This is how life works. It's never just one way.
my 12th great grandfather, william mullins, came over on the mayflower. he passed away the first year they were here.
My 11th generation ancestor Edward Doty was a scalawag! He and a friend were “indentured servants “ but really adventurers. These two 21 yr olds got into lots of trouble so I’m thinking they weren’t part of the puritans! That must be were I get my spunk from 😂!
I am a descendant of a Mayflower shipmate. We did our genealogy a few years back and thanks to my great aunt actually have documents.
It amazes me that Bradford gets so much credit. He was a writer/keeper of records. William Brewster had more to do with the Mayflower and the reason was for religious freedom. He fled from England or stay and die for not worshiping the new religion
14 years He worked as a printer to earn money to hire the Mayflower
Check it out.
I know that Americans take pride in their connection to the early European settlers and I understand the desire to make them the “good guys”. Although the pilgrims had two good leaders that kept their word and maintained peace, that changed after their death. The doom of the native peoples and the conquest of North America with all its killing and stealing and broken treaties is firmly based on the religious beliefs of those Pilgrims.
Being the chosen people naturally made everyone else not chosen by God and so an inferior race. The right to vote was connected to belonging to the people who thought and belived “correctly”. The Pilgrims left the Netherlands because of the freedom and tolerance that the Dutch belived and practiced, and the Pilgrims were wary of their children learning to be tolerant and accepting other ways of thought and belief. The Pilgrims did not believe in freedom or democracy, they belived that everyone should believe what they believed. They laid the foundation of intolerance that defines the U.S. today. If someone disagrees with you, you have the right to kill them! Just like people in American today. Sure not all Americans but too many compared to other countries, where this sort of barbaric thought does not exist. The Pilgrims were not a religious group, they were in fact a cult of extremists. They did not have Christian values. Today’s America can be traced back to these original intolerant people that enslaved natives and stole their land, using Gods will as an excuse for their own greed and intolerance. They were in fact terrible people that could not live in England because they wanted everyone to agree with them. They could not tolerate people with different thinking or beliefs. The Netherlands, where I happen to live, who welcomed them regardless of their beliefs was unacceptable by these people because the Dutch practiced too much freedom and tolerance. Their democracy was the worst kind, that all must agree and those that didn’t agree with the majority were outcasts or the devil. There is no room for a minority in their world, like it is today. Their idea of government was intolerant and authoritarian. They didn’t rule any differently then the ruthless rulers and aristocracy of Europe. A new coat of paint didn’t change anything. Americans are big on whitewashing their history and romanticize it into a fairy tale. That’s why today America is the most violent, most murderous, most crime ridden western country.
FINALLY a non romanticized explanation of the origins and basis of the US. People, especially Americans, fail to realize how Calvinist-Puritan beliefs continue to drive modern American policy and attitudes today, e.g. the cruelty of the American health care system, hatred of immigrants and "brown" people, etc. Hard work doesn't produce benefits for all, just white people. I second the irony of seeking refuge in tolerant Holland, only to create an intolerant theocracy in the New World.
Wow...you need to learn a lil Dutch history. Freedom and tolerance was NOT the rule of the day. Their liberal ideas did not come from a belief in freedom and tolerance. It was a result of being ruled by money( which is far worse than religion). it took the Dutch centuries, and an economic downfall, to get out of the slavery/ genocide game. The US addressed and eliminated slavery within one generation of its founding...at great cost..at a time when half the country( a significant portion of the economy) was dependent on it. The pilgrims, who you seem to confuse with puritans, established the ideals that the US ( often violently) continues to perpetuate.
People need to stop conflating the Puritans/Pilgrims with the Founding Fathers. One group were retro Talibans that would've condemned the others to death for their beliefs
Violence and greed did not begin or end with the Pilgrims or whoever they were. I've read the account of 6,000 years of recorded human history and it has always been a story of greed and killing to take what belongs to someone else.
So many words, so little understanding of history. Lol. Maybe you should read a few books before trying to write one in the comment section.
I appreciate the disappointment of how Native American descendents feel about the way their ancestors way of life disappeared. Now, the logic and common sense part of my thinking gets really disgusted with the oldest Americans still complaining and hating their country because they are Americans. Just like when their tribe used to wipe out another tribe and take in those still alive and made them adapt to their tribe. Irony and hypocrisy is everywhere! The message is clear: we Native Americans do this to others but it's wrong when you do it to us. Yeah, major racism.
Best documentary I have seen yet on the Mayflower. I am proud to be a direct descendant of 4 Mayflower passengers. I am also a direct descendant of Massasoit, grand Sachem of the Wampanoags, through his son Metacomet whose daughter married the Englishman John Starkweather. I am a proud American.
I too am a descendant of those from the Mayflower.
It's great that you are able to trace your lineage so far back. Most of us African Americans aren't so blessed.
america is a continent.. you’re european
@@tippullthemnow9839 the usa is an illegal occupation. So is Canada too.majority of these Nation states set up in the western hemisphere.#landback #decolonized.
its because this isn't an american documentary. That increases the quality tremendously.
So one thing that isn't discussed as a major factor in the Pilgrims' decision-making process is just how far in debt the Mayflower Colonists were. They owed buckets of money to the merchant corporation that had put up the funding for the trip. They had sold their lands and property to move to Leiden and most had nothing to return to in England. Delays had forced the colonists to sell off some of their supplies to keep funding the enterprise. Irrespective of whether or not they got to the coast of North America, they were on the hook for repaying the debt, especially if they returned to England where they could be imprisoned for the payment of if they didn't come up with the cash. Just before they finally headed out the final time, the corporation changed the terms of the agreement from the understanding that the colonists would work for the corporation six days a week and then keep one day for the building and improving their own homes and properties, to the idea that the colonists would just work all seven days of the week for the corporation for the term of seven years. The "Mayflower Compact" was the leaders of the colony jettisoning those terms and coming up with a new contract between the colonists themselves, since the Corporation could not reach them where they were. Not only were there SOME indentured servants on the journey, from the perspective of the Corporation, the Mayflower passengers were ALL indentured for the repayment of the debt. Eventually, after a couple of years of struggle, the colonists began to send back trade goods like cod, hides, and furs to London to the Corporation to finally settle some of the outstanding debt. The Corporation was hoping to get timber, tobacco and possibly precious metals as well, but those were not available to the Plymouth settlers at that time. Comparing the journey to America to a space mission is right on point. If the ship and the colonists were lost or if they were wiped out by the natives, then the Corporation lost their stake. However, if any of the colonists survived, then they were responsible for the repayment of the debt to the Corporation.
So I guess they were ‘codependents’ of the West.
Why didn’t they team up with the Natives against the corporation instead?🤔 And lived lives like the Natives?🤔
@@real_hello_kitty Because they didn't know how. They knew some farming, fishing and hunting but they starved over that first winter next to some of the most productive oyster and clam beds on the North American East Coast while being devastated by disease. The natives could have told them about cranberries, a good source of vitamin C and ground nuts (peanuts), a good source of protein, both of which were lacking in the Pilgrim's diet. The following summer, Squanto and Samoset taught the colonists something about planting crops in that climate
@@tessat338 So the following summer they _know how_ .🧐
@@tessat338 So they were starving, and it’s the 👉 natives’ _fault_ .
Not their west Europe oppressors fault.
It’s always the fault of the people who taught them to find food, NOT the fault of the people who kicked them from Europe.🤔
@@real_hello_kitty Oh, I'm not blaming the natives. The more one studies the Pilgrim plantation expedition, the more one realizes how woefully unprepared for their adventure they were. Many of them paid for this with their lives. They landed, outside of where they were planning to go, with insufficient supplies, at the beginning of winter, and then sickness broke out. That ANY of them survived is amazing. They owe most of the credit for that survival to the help they got from the Native Americans and to resupply from England.
2 of my ancestors came over on the mayflower. Don't remember names, just that one was a 14 yr old boy who accidentally shot a gun on the ship(almost caught fire) and the other one was ran out of town.
Francis Billington.
Technically there were 3 ships that went to Plymouth. The Anne, The Mayflower, and the Speedwell. My ancestor Joshua Pratt was the sheriff of the town and worked with the likes of William Bradfors
The Speedwell wasn’t able to make the trip. The Anne didn’t come with Mayflower in 1620. There were several ships that came after! 😊
Sheriff of which Town?
What about the non-Pilgrim (those seeking religious freedom) on the ships? This is a very small part of the story.
Three of the Mayflower passengers are my great grandfathers about 12 generations back William Bradford, William Brewster, and Richard Warren.
Ditto! ❤
my beloved, Daryl Bergquist, is a descendant of Richard Warren’s.
thank you,
Alabama
Love Historical videos, brilliant 💕
I love the historical story told without bias. The interviews with many from different backgrounds gives a balanced view of history which is always needed. Great job!
That is a beautiful ship they used. Stunning.
Beautifully presented. - from a Native American... I get not everyone was on board, but that's sort of a recurring thing. We disagree. "Natives" weren't ALWAYS in America. To throw us all into a peace pipe, brown skin only, nature worshiping group is both racist and ignorant. There were hundreds of tribes. They were also warring, killing innocents and traveling around taking territory. How quickly we forget... Natives walked over to Alaska from Asia. Natives are a variety of colors and beliefs, and we most certainly did NOT agree. It's lovely to live in a time when people can exist from people who previously hated each other because that means humanity evolved in a positive way.
I can’t imagine Christians would not keep their promise to pay someone back since they felt they had the devil on their backs 24/7 and they would go to hell forever if they sinned. There was one point where a Pilgrim nursed a Native American leader back to health, I forget the names.
I'm 13 generations from Peregrine White who was born on the Mayflower. That must have been a tough pregnancy.
Me too❤
Also me
Sometimes I wonder what a Native governed America would be like. Would nature be dying? Would we be in about the same situation we are now? I wish I could have seen this land when it was unpolluted.
It would be ruled by a different European country,
Early European colonists wrote of rivers and forests teeming with life. Native Americans governed with usury property rights. They didnt have words for "fence" or "border." They just agreed on who could use which piece of land for which resource.
It would've been just as violent. They were killing each other before the settlers arrived
Much more spiritual and harmonious. It would have been wonderful.
This Ojibwe kinda wishes that our brothers and sisters of the Wampanoag tribe had been a little less friendly and helpful after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, lol.
If it weren't brits it would have been french or spanish. The reality of the time is that if you couldnt hold such valuable land, someone was going to take it from you.
absolutely
If it was other people they may have just wiped them out and taken there supplies.
@@thetroll1247 Well, they ended up doing just that, tbh. It just took a little bit of time. They almost succeeded in wiping us out, but we're still here.
@@catbyte0679 and still moaning about it.
1621.....a 2 storey glass windowed house built from scratch. Ha! Pretty fanciful I believe! My ancestors arrived only 13 years later in 1634 in the (now) Boston area. A home as presented here even years later would have been an undreamed of luxury. This is not exactly "Absolute History".
Sitting on a car ride from Jamestown Virginia and I learned a lot from the museums I went to thanks bro
I just did my family tree recently and found out William Bradford was my 8th great grandfather
Having grown up not far from Plymouth I've always had a fascination for how much hardship they had to endure and what life must have been like for them and the "locals" they encountered when they arrived. Like most Massachusetts natives I've been told I have forebears on both sides of the story which makes it that much more important to me that the real story be told in a non-judgemental way considering that neither the pilgrims nor the indians set out to cause harm each other, though honestly the early pilgrim recon missions probably sent a very negative signal. Thanks! Dave J
Not stating right or wrong, id say the newcomers were desperate. And any nourishment found there was no debate when it came to survival.
This was a great show it showed the real history of us white Europeans coming here not the slanted view that they show now that has the pilgrims being mustache twirling villains that were over here to kill Indians enslaved blacks which is what they portray in the world now which is such a joke these were the people that set the foundation for the greatest country in the history of mankind
This was a great show it showed the real history of us white Europeans coming here not the slanted view that they show now that has the pilgrims being mustache twirling villains that were over here to kill Indians enslaved blacks which is what they portray in the world now which is such a joke these were the people that set the foundation for the greatest country in the history of mankind
@@johnjohnon8767 but at what point it turned them into oppressors?
They literally came to steal land from the natives. You should judge them
I once saw a cartoon that depicted the pilgrims landing, with all the usual pomp and splendor. And off to the side, two Native Americans watching them. The caption reads: “Great. Fucking boat people.” I want this six feet high and three feet wide,oil on canvas,so I can hang it over my fireplace.
I have gone back to three mayflower grandfather, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton and Richard William.
Queen Elizabeth and King James the 1st were also my owner's ancestors.
Anyone wishing to can join The Mayflower Society chapter in your State! You show them the research and pay a small fee. All of us dedicated to high Ideals and Democracy. Very Proud to be American!
Thank you for sharing
Descended from Stephen Hopkins through his daughter Constance.
There is always a Price to Pay for a Negative Action. Nobody can tell when because Time is the Master
People tend to act in improper ways, even today. We humans are not perfect.
There are so many inaccuracies in this video. Just to reiterate the most egregious, the Pilgrims were not Puritans. They were separatists. The Puritans came over in 1630. A many time great-grandfather was the 6th Secretary of State for the Massachusetts Bay Colony - of which Plymouth was not a part.
I don't even celebrate Thanksgiving anymore; after I discovered the truth, I wanted nothing to do with it.
Thanksgiving is nothing but gluttony.
William Bradford is my ancestor!! I had no idea he was orphaned!
I live in the town where he was born in the North of England 🙏
@@michelles2299 I want to visit so badly! I know his home is still there
Hello cousin!!!
Does the native gentleman remember the tribes his tribe conquered and enslaved? Somehow I bet he has forgotten .
I’m descended from Turner, Brewster & White.
This is how my mother's maternal family came to America. Four of my ancestors fought under general Washington!
Proud to live in Plymouth
I am 5% England and 8% Scotland, 4 % Wales. I discovered that I had ancestors on the Mayflower😮😮 through ancestry tree and DNA.
I am a decendant of Mayflower passengers Richard Warren, James Cook, and Thomas Rogers. I'm glad they endured those hardships or I wouldn't be here.
They weren't as determined to stay.As they had no choice to stay.What would they have stocked the ship with as provisions? Nothing,they were stuck....
I love these fabulous documentaries done so well. I am nit picking but I wish they had British accents for these actors ,especially when they're taking the vow & signing the agreement.
My family was here pretty early & I thank god for that
My 13th great Grandpa was John Howard, the first signer of the mayflower compact. Watching this video is very exciting!
The fact that they had to eat people is just insane and broski said savegaes worst than it
I love how it's all swelling music and admiration and then they randomly pepper in the native guy being like "It was some F-ing bullshit!"
Somewhere they could force their beliefs on others, more like.
Video: About the Mayflower….. Comments: “What about the Indians?” “What about the African slaves?”
What about them? This isn’t about them.
Someone has to point out that conditions on the Mayflower were a lot nicer than those on the ships of the Middle Passage, and that there are no records of the original names of the passengers except as cargo.
Excellent point Ms. Hunt. Not reading any white folks discussing that point.
@@warrenlewis3977That’s because this video isn’t about the middle passage. It’s about the Mayflower. They also didn’t discuss conditions on the Maine or the Titanic, nor do videos on about the African slave trade discuss the Mayflower. Not everything’s about you. Sorry not sorry.
Not me thinking this was actually a documentary about ‘What Life Was Like For The Pilgrims Onboard the Mayflower’…😐😕
My ancestor Richard Ellis was also one of the settlers.
Okay why does the guy in the thumbnail look a distant relative of Sylvester Stallone?
Lol
So interesting and much to learn.
Her discombobulated hand gestures in the beginning 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋💥
I pay for premium. Why do these guys keep showing me ads?
65 days on the ship.
How did they survive the horrible food and conditions. Those children are remarkable.
It must have been torture.
God is with them..
Most of my colony ancestors arrived in Virginia . The earliest in 1675/6 as an indentured servant belonging to William Byrd l .
It is estimated that 2/3rds of the colonists who arrived between 1620 and 1680 were Indentured servants.
My ancestor worked in the tobacco fields
England used the headright system to rid itself of " loiterers" , " idle vagrants" and convicts
I'm related to Mary chilton she's my 10th great granddaughter! She came over on the mayflower!
Who cares ? Boring 😴
I haven't been able to figure out why the left on a trip like this in the fall of the year. They knew they wouldn't be able to plant crops....I wonder where they thought food for the winter would come from
Same here. Arriving in early winter was an insane idea.
Agree. Best time an arrival in April, plenty of seeds in tow.
Possibly they thought the trip would take longer and they were planning to arrive in early spring? But still sailing in winter at all is very dangerous…
@@LilyLewis771 Nah, I think they "fairly knew" how long a trip and packed accordingly. LOTS AND LOTS of beans. Survive the winter and plant in the spring. ANY plant short of some root crops are useless up to about 90 days maturity.... And you have to plow. I have done it with a shovel... Flip, break, break, break. NOT easy.
I am sure this is just an error in the documentary time-line. No practical means of living 6 months of winter, 3 months of harvest, nobody would even try it.
John Alden and Pricilla Mullins are my 10th great grand parents off their daughter Elizabeth Pabodie. I was adopted and did not discover this until I was 55.
They are my 9th great grandparents; also through Elizabeth. I think about 3.5% of the US population is related to those who sailed on the Mayflower.
@@grannyoakley20 Curious how far down we match now. lolol Mine is Eliz Alden, Eliz Pabodie, Eliz Rogers. Then Captian Perez Richmond.
I, too, was curious. Mine goes from Elizabeth ALDEN to Lydia PABODIE to Pabodie GRINNELL to Lydia GRINNELL to Joseph SPENCER. I am also a SPENCER. My research shows Elizabeth ROGERS married to Silvester RICHMOND and one of their sons was named Perez. I will check my data on that!
@@grannyoakley20 Yes that is what I have also. Then onto a Throop. I was adopted, and did not even know who my parents where until I was 54. To find this was such a treat, although I cant join any associations until they allow dna as evidence. :( but at least I know part of me was there. LOL. Good to meet you cousin.
Hello Cousins!
My 12th great grandfather was Thomas English! I deckhand in the ship
Once again overdramatic music and reenactments have the strange effect of taking all the punch out of history.
I think people are very naïve thinking that the Native Americans helped the colonists out of good will. They helped them because they were under threat by another tribe to the North that was dominating them. They had a mutual interest with the colonists and so they cooperated and traded.
They were both wary of each other, natural human nature. Primate groups act exactly the same way.
I am a descendent of the Chiltons, the oldest couple on the Mayflower who both died the first winter.
I have them as well.
I wonder if the commenters who are descendants of the Mayflower passengers are related in anyway...I've read, "My 12th grandfather..." five times, at least.
Now thanksgiving is just a day to eat turkey and watch football.
“Everyone will want to be like us? “ um… These courageous people wrote the Mayflower Comoavt which laid the groundwork for our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and a hundred other countries would adopt Constitutions based on our principles.
So many ads on these videos, they are hard to enjoy. What a disgrace.
My 9th grandfather is Edward Doty