1620: What Was It Really Like Aboard The Mayflower? | Journey Into Unknown | The American Story
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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. But what was it really like? What conditions did the pilgrims find themselves in as they made thri long journey across the Atlantic.
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My ancestor is James Chilton who signed the Mayflower Compact. He was the oldest on board but unfortunately died before setting on land. His daughter survived to begin part of the family on my mother's side.
Great story!,
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He is my ancestor too. His daughter, Mary, as a single girl child was granted an equal property share.
Mary Chilton is a relative of mine
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I had ancestors on the Mayflower. Amazing anyone survived!!
My Mayflower ancestors were John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. John Howland was washed overboard in a storm on the way. He was lucky that a halyard (rope) blew out away from the ship into the water and he was able to grab it and be pulled back to the ship. Otherwise, me and a couple of million other people wouldn't be here!
My mother WAS Mexican, brought to the US as a child for a better life ans is proud to be an American. My father , a white and american indian. I am so grateful to have been born in this great country. I love America ❤ . I see the oilgrims as my heros. Being a Christian, i admire their faith and thank them for their part in founding this beautiful country.
Oohh you're gorgeous
i am white and i see these folks as colonizers and thieves. but here we are.
Why don’t most documentaries about the European immigration to the United States rarely if ever mention that the Spanish were first then the French? They usually just start with the Mayflower of the Pilgrims & Puritans. It’s an Anglo-English narrative. Spain & France were there before England & also can’t forget the Dutch & Swedish also Russia with Alaska. Good part of your genes have Spanish roots, don’t forget about Spain & what they accomplished.
But Christianity is a load of crap, and your people aren't even originally Christian anyway....
Lianacordova How could your father b white if he was Indian?
Hunt took Squanto to Spain to sell him as a slave. But some Franciscan friars saw what was happening and collected enough money to purchase the freedom of Squanto and his friends. The monks took the Indians back to their monastery, where they nursed them back to health. The Franciscans taught Squanto the Catholic faith and he was apparently baptized.
Squanto stayed with the Pilgrims and helped them in many ways. The Pilgrims were happy to have him for a friend, but not for long. In November of 1622, disease took the life of Squanto, the Pilgrims' friend.
Me-ds2il What year was Squanto transported to Spain to b sold as a slave! I wonder if Squanto realized at the point in time of his kidnapping that he was gonna b sold as a slave! He must have been very young, perhaps a boy?
He also did some time in England if my memeory is right --then went back to NoAmerica.
@@chairlesnicol672if there was any kind of battle, slavery was a thing back then and all throughout history. He probably knew he'd be a slave, just not taken back to England for it.
@@xaspirate8060You might be thinking of Pocahontas.
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People of English ancestry, and European ancestry for that matter, should NEVER be made to feel ashamed of their legacy. These are the people who significantly contributed to the betterment of civilization. Their history must be preserved at all costs.
you should. your ancestors made others feel inferior for theirs. the world wasn't theirs for the taking and the future has yet to respond.
sez an obvious racist bigot.
Well Said!! I Agree 1000%
So let me get this straight...Your ancenstry's legacy of the betterment of civilization through slavery and war is something you refuse to be ashamed of, but feel ashamed enough to have to explain why you shouldn't be ashamed.....Got it.
@@randyt3558every country and race has blood on its hands. Why are we acting like white people are absolutely evil? Every race owned slaves. It’s horrible to think about, but don’t go re-writing history to fit a narrative that suits you.
My ancestor was John Billington and he also signed the Mayflower compact. My 16th great grandfather I believe. Quite a tale! He was tried and hanged in 1630 for the murder of someone in Plymouth colony. His son Francis, my 15th great grandfather, shot a musket aboard the Mayflower and almost blew up a barrel of gunpowder. Ever since finding out I was a descendant when I was about 35 I have been enthralled in the Mayflower and everything to do with it. Nice to read all these stories in the comments! Okay off to watch the video now! Haha
Hey those are my ancestors, too! On my maternal grandfather's side, at least. Maternal grandmother's side I'm related to the Cooke and Warren families (Richard Warren's daughter married Francis Cooke's son, and both gentlemen sailed on the Mayflower, along with Francis' son.)
Two very cool family histories! Thx for sharing it. 😊
They are my brother and sisters
We are related! John Billington was a way back Grandfather to me also.
Francis was born about 1606, possibly in or around Spaulding or Cowbit, Lincolnshire, England. Francis Billington was named as one of the heirs of Francis Longland of Cowbit, Lincolnshire, England. (A manorial survey taken in 1650 indicated that Francis Billington was then living in New England and was about 40 years old. Francis himself gave his age as 68 in a deposition from 1674, making him about fourteen when he came on the Mayflower with his parents John and Eleanor Billington.)
Francis was an active, rambunctious youth. He nearly caused a disaster onboard the Mayflower shortly after arrival in Plymouth Harbor, when he shot off his father's gun inside a cabin, sending sparks towards an open barrel of gunpowder. After he came ashore, he climbed up a tree and claimed to have spotted a "great sea" in the distance: a small pond that still carries the name "Billington Sea" even today. His brother John died between 1627-1630. His father was executed murder in 1630.
Francis married Christian Penn Eaton in July 1634. Christian was the widow and third wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Eaton. She brought Eaton’s child from his first marriage and three from her marriage to Eaton (including one who was disabled and referred to in Bradford’s journal as an “idiot”) when she married Francis. The couple had nine more children together and raised their family in Plymouth, where he was a carpenter. They struggled to provide for their large family and some were bound out to other families to rear.
About 1669 Francis was one of 26 original purchasers and settlers of Middleborough. Although driven off during the Indian wars, they returned to Middleborough in 1670 and lived there until his death in December 1684. Christian’s death date was not recorded, but may have been near the same time. The last recorded mention of her was 13 July 1684. The 1703/4 probate petition by son Isaac indicated that his parents had been dead for over 18 years.
Is so good to see so many people discussing United States history and freely discussing And debating different points of view. I think we need to get back to basics while being as accurate in the recounting of history as possible whether it be about successes or failures. God bless our country as we pay special thankful homage to our Creator today.
God has everything to do with the founding of America and the US Constitution. It was the founders understand of Scripture through which the rights of man are established; not by governmental decree, but by our Creator. It would behoove you to read up and research the founders and their beliefs, and the writings of the men who inspired them… including the Bible!
@@rjhinnjthat would have been the KJB? What do you know of King James?
William Bradford is my 7th Great Grandfather, this is fascinating to watch knowing I wouldn’t be if he hadn’t been hardy enough to survive all that he did.
So interesting. I bet you have some stories that have been passed down.
@@margarettickle9659would not likely bear any likeness to reality.
@@Paleotech1and how would you know that? I actually come from several generations of family members that kept many astounding records of various happenings amongst our ancestors and passed them down. I’ve expanded on the family tree passed down and am back to the 1200s on both sides of my family. Many of the names on it are absolutely amazing. It’s wonderful to know where/who you came from and to have the records to back it up. So, yes, the stories I can tell bear a great likeness to reality, thank you.
William Bradford was a yorkshire man, we are a hardy people. He was a leader and one the Governors of the Plymouth Colony for 30 years.
Are you just guessing, ha? OR did you get DNA tested. HE is in my family line is why I ask.
This is excellent detail. I'm an offshore sailor myself, have experienced a 72 hour storm out of sight of land, queasy. Cramped quarters. Do the math: no cabins, their personal space sq ft is 3x4 and five ft high ... half the queensize mattress I'm cosy watching this movie. And Oceanis mother birthed him in such conditions... not to mention other private biz or being seasick. 😮what these 102 did for us... the significance of that radical Compact, I'm blown away (always have been, knowing thar passengers Cooke Fuller & Warren are my ancestor families. America is still God's providence , though it does not seem that way in Georgia this season. 😢 ☦️
Yep she's a trip 24:00 she's hearsay. Pilgrim diaries record payment which is their biblical culture & they've no one to prove to but God. Like I said, lib3ral tears.
Meh, objectively, they only had a direct impact on their direct descendants, of which today, very few are. The tragedies (even if viewed as somewhat necessary) enacted upon the natives, in particular the suppression of wider knowledge of their culture and medicinal practices, were too high a price for the shambles we experience today in all but a few places. Overarching point here is, the European migration would've continued unto such a result, without regard for these pilgrims
@@Goji-eletienne The problem is, if it hadn't been Europe, it would've been China. And although contact with Europeans practically annihilated my own ancestors, my own family is far-flung enough now -- in 2023 -- for me to know how much worse that would've been.
History is a viciously-violent place, and it will still be when 2023 is far in the distant past someday, and people centuries hence will look back on us and all the horrors being perpetrated today.
Humans are humans, all we can do is try to be better than the worst of us, and aim to be as beneficial as the best of us. 🤷🏾♀️
"Only had a direct impact on direct descendants" !!!??? They laid the cornerstones of this country and what it became.
Don't waste your time. She is just miserable and likes to be anti-tradition. They have no vision nor do they ever ponder things like what would this continent be like if Russia or China got here first. Doubt if there would be any greetings exchanged at the outset, but probably just mass annihalation of indigenous. @@zxyatiywariii8
Wow. Impressed. I'm a 2nd generation born in US Czech. Just a late comer!😊
My ancestor was Myles Standish, who came over with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact , and was hired as military advisor and captain for the Plymouth Colony by the Pilgrims. He helped coordinate their future colony's defenses, yet their is no mention of him in this story?!
Hey cousin!
@@ntucson669 Hey Cuz!
I read the book Mayflower. Standish is the Man!
Exactly!!
The Peanuts version is great and fairly accurate to boot!
Thanks so much for this wonderful re-creation of one of the greatest adventures ever accomplished by men/women! Have more? Thanks in advance.
'greatest adventures ever accomplished by men/women!' please not at all.
You are free to think as You please
They did nothing more than sail the Atlantic. An adventure indeed but very far from “one of the greatest adventures ever accomplished by man”. The Vikings regularly made the crossing hundreds of years before the Mayflower bigots did.
I am a proud descendent of John Howland and still carry on the name Howland. He survived the trip over after being washed overboard during a storm and from him many great leaders of America are descended; including American Presidents and the founders of the Mormon religion. He was also the last of the original passengers of the mayflower to pass away into eternity.
I am also a descendant of John Howland (12 th generation)
I am also a descendant of Howland. Millions of Americans are. Running joke is that he was a drunkard who fell overboard.
Actually I may be thinking of the Tilleys daughter Elizabeth. I was adopted and just found this information fairly recently
Just think none of you would exist except for maybe the slimmest of chances of a rescue... fate or chance ?
@@Mr-Damage More than one close call in our family history in North America. Our ancestors fought in every war since the founding of the USA. Some came home, some didn't. We go back a long way in this country and most of us are having a hard time believing that the majority chooses a return to autocracy, like under King George III. We haven't done all of this hard work and fighting for 400 years just so a few chuckleheads can throw it all down the crapper. Expect fierce resistance to autocracy in OUR USA. Peace.
The Pilgrims did not believe in the trinity, did not celebrate Christmas, no priest class, used God's name Jehovah freely. They were searching for the truth from the Scriptures and were persecuted for their beliefs. Beliefs based on the Bible.
It's wonderful to find someone defending Jehovah's name and truth.
Read the Holy Scriptures (The Bible) with His Spirit and you can’t NOT see the Trinity ❤
@@noelcaro9182 I read the Bible daily. Not here to debate. Either you accept the truth or you don't. God gave us the gift of free will so it is our own personal choice.
I enjoyed listening to this while cleaning up after our last vestiges of Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. I am grateful for their bravery and the Indians compassionate help.
And what they did afafter to the Indians massacred them and keep them in reservations so are they really was seeking religious freedom warmongering until presently
@@theprophet489, I agree with you 100%
So at the end when the native American guy says the first Thanksgiving was a lie which I know it wasn't even close to what Americans have made it to be I understand that but when he says they were forced to speak the Europeans language and live by their rules so if it turned out the other way around that would have been acceptable?...So you're telling me that if the evil white man never came your people would still live the way of the 17th century ?.....That's fine if your people would have but what I don't understand is WHO gave you the land you were on and where is your proof of ownership ?.....I understand that the Europeans arriving in your area went badly a lot of time BUT that's HUMAN NATURE this whole purported MYTH that ALL the natives were nothing but peaceful and perfect is about as ridiculous a twist of history as the American story of the first Thanksgiving !....I'm sorry but there's massive proof of the native Americans atrocities against other native Americans just like every other groups of people to ever walk the Earth !....Were lots of native Americans treated poorly ABSOLUTELY !......But read WORLD history so were EVERY other groups of people on this earth at one time or another.
@user-wm2hv2mh9b, Yours is the same deflection as used today in Jerusalem. "If I don't put you out of your home someone else will." Others are "uncivilized" but we so what we are doing is alright. Bradford and Standish murdered the native leaders who became suspicious of the "new immigrants" intentions within 18 months of their arrival. The "bible" cures everything by Calvin's "glorify God by becoming "wealthy." What about "moral" approach? What about a recognition of other humans as having the same value as yourself?
yeah, we are all decendence of slaves.
For the record there were NatAmer at first harvest feast but none of them sat at a table (except Massasoit or Squanto?)- they contributed deer meat and ate with pilgrims but not like some paintings or tv shows project.
ya the blanket statement from that native guy that it was all a lie, but he has no evidence or explantion why makes me not take that seriously. Life was tough back then and everbody was just looking out for No.1 thats survival no matter what your skin colour this black and white history narrative that paints european people as bad and natives as good is so disingenuous. People are flawed we make good choices and bad choices nobody is perfect except Jesus
The native american tribes of new england had conquered the Valsuitsz tribe 210 years before the ariival of the pilgrims.
The Valsuitsz had conquered the Malfoak tribes 300 years prior.
The Malfoaks conquered the bilztueks 650 years.
The Blizteks were a tribe that ruled for 768 years .
Archeological studys are continuing.....
Even though the names are fake there have been warring tribes on this continent long before Europeans got here
Nobody ever discusses that, do they?
Naw....Malfoak is a Lebonese dish. Stop making things up. Everyone in the U.S. lives on native burial grounds.
Discusses what ??? PLEASE don't believe everything you read. These are made up names. No such thing as Valsuitsz...LOL...Malfoak is a cabbage dish of Lebanon.@@chasbee
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The big myth is that the natives were somehow original and unified.
But don't you know they all lived in peace and harmony, communing with nature, and each evening they would all join hands and sing kumbaya.
This video gave such a fascinating glimpse into what life aboard the Mayflower was really like
Why does the Native lady have to go and make it nasty?
@DavidColey yeah I agree... and they actually ended the video with a real nasty comment from her. I guarantee you she's a Democrat.
Stirring up ethnic strife and bitterness is all the fashion these days in the academic world.
If events didn't unfold the way did... Then who knows ! Maybe China? Maybe the czars? Hmmm
Bradford from my recollection states in his journal that the Natives were paid for the corn they took after the first landing. The speaker says they lied and didn't pay for the corn. She is wrong The film leaves out why the area was desolate and why the Natives did not attack the Pilgrims. The Natives murdered some fishermen and that was followed by a plague. They thought of this in occult terms, not having any understanding of germs, spooked they refrained from attacking the Pilgrims. Within a short period of time after the Great Migration 1630] the Natives had gifted to them the first published Bible in America, in Algonquin their very own language.
Yes, much of the entire Northeast coast was cleared of many tribes due to European plagues before the Pilgrims came. These Eurasian/African diseases killed far, far more natives across all of North and South America than wars and other activities.
@@emsnewssupkis6453 And even now, centuries later, this affects people's immune responses. For instance, although measles was mostly a self-limiting childhood disease for many Europeans, it nearly annihilated my ancestors (even more so than smallpox!) and even now, as a child I had to get a much higher dose of measles vaccine just to get the same immune response which descendents of Europeans get from one dose.
Ethnicity matters in our medical records.
Another reason is individual salt requirements (some people need more than what the USDA recommends, others need less) and Vitamin D, and all kinds of other things. It's good to research what our ancestors had access to, and exposure to, for our own health. (I got hyponatremia and fainted and fell down some stairs when I limited my salt intake to USDA recommendations, and a Scandinavian friend of mine also has to get extra salt; while a Black friend of mine has to cut her salt intake to HALF the USDA recommendations or she gets high blood pressure.)
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My ancestor was Ed Doty. He was a contracted hand on the passage. He was to be given his freedom from the contract upon arrival in Jamestown. When the Mayflower was blown off course to the Cape, he contested his contract (ie.. his grounds for freedom from the contract). From my understanding his stubbornness on the matter, as well as the concerns of other contracted ship workers, forced the creation of the Mayflower Compact. He was not entirely aligned with the Puritans, and although he was instrumental in establishing the colony, and held land there. Ed Doty did eventually head to Jamestown. He is known to be a bit of a 'bad ass' that didn't like prevailing conventions. He might have married a Indian Chiefs daughter, but he certainly sued, and had legal suites against numerous people. He finally did settle back on his land on the Cape.
The indentured servants at Jamestown also had problems with their employers and colony administrators. Too many had to endure mistreatment during their contract period only to be given worthless land once it was completed. The new colonists that paid for their passage became irate when the administration gave them marginal land to develop since the established wealthy colonists were allowed to buy the best land first when more was acquired from the local tribe. The local tribes were smart and allowed the disgruntled colonists and runaway servants to acquire land from them well away from the Jamestown Colony since the newcomers exchanged trade goods for land instead of taking it away by conquest. By 1620 the Virginia Company in England changed things by installing new colony administrators and allowing colonists to settle outside of Jamestown to live with the natives. My mother's paternal ancestor arrived at Jamestown at the age of 19 in 1614. He paid for his passage so was awarded with 50 acres of land. The kid arrived with money so bought 150 kegs of tobacco to send back on the ship to pay for his wife's passage and supplies he wanted. The colony administrators required for all exports and imports to go thru them to earn revenue for the colony. By 1620 he and his family were residing on the other side of the Great Dismal Swamp by the Albemarle Estuary with a community of Friends (Quakers). The region was considered hostile native territory so he was able to bypass the colony by conducting trade with privateers and smugglers.
I, too, am a direct descendent of Edward Doty and Elizabeth Sole
Edward was a grandfather of mine also.
My cousin was a wonderful genealogist .S
he traveled to cemeteries & places where public record were kept. A result of her passion for history revealed that our family are descend ed from Thomas Doty. She belonged to the Daughters of the Mayflower. I am grateful for her hard work. I have learned so much about my family beginning with Thomas Doty & knowing about our family today@
My father In law was related to Bradford. The old parchment scroll I saw years ago was as long as a dining table with both leafs put into it. It was amazing!! I believe my ex SIL has that parchment now. He passed in 2009. There is also said there is a Miles Standish connection. He was raised in Plymouth and worked on a cranberry bog. He sat for my NYS dental hygiene board exams and was a fine man. His family history was fascinating. I wish he was around to ask him more questions. His memory is what made me watch this. Very interesting program, even though I disagree with the woman stating there was no repayment for the seed corn.
Wasn’t a lack of planning as this is saying. They were being persecuted for their faith & some were being imprisoned. When you are escaping, you cannot always plan the best time of year. They called themselves saints, not because they thought they were better, but because as believers we are saints according to the Word of God. It just means believers.
They literally said they were being imprisoned for their beliefs in England. Not even the 6 minute mark.
English/British settlement was later to spread around the world. Interesting to compare their experiences. My own family has people in South Africa, Australia and Canada. I myself although British spent several years in South Africa. Then when checking out old photographs we see people setting out in covered wagons in different continents. By comparing their experiences around the globe and through time we may see lessons learned or otherwise in dealing with the native populations.
The British political union was not a thing back then .
@@edmundsveikutis1698 The British are coming….😅
Get over it, thanksgiving is awesome.
Well. ya should be thankful EVERY DAY your ancestors didn't get wiped out by genocide so people could come from all over the world and pile a bunch of JUNK on their land.
You have Bradford's book, the Mayflour compact agreement said all would be shared in a common store.
When he saw no enthusiasm because some did not work as hard, but shared in the gatherings, he gave each (family, group) a plot of land to produce and keep their own makings.
Bradfords own words were, (and all hands were made bountiful).
That is why they had a thanksgiving.
Absolutely correct. ...This is also one of the best examples of the failure of socialism!
communism can never be a utopia for that reason. if done true to form but voluntarily , it becomes unfair, if forced, it becomes a fascist nightmare, dystopia. ironically, this can be said of the current form of capitalism and forms of socialism.
@@ThomasFerner Dude, if they hadn't cooperated in the beginning, forming a separate community to pool their resources for the journey across the Atlantic, there wouldn't have been any pilgrims at all. An all- privateer gang would have cannibalized each other before they even made it to Cape Cod. Yes, they landed in Provincetown and stayed for a season there before moving up to Plymouth. Are you gonna say they left P-Town because there were gay people there, too? The concept of socialism wasn't distributed widely until Marx wrote "Das Kapital" in 1867. I know revisionist history is popular with some, but do your homework before spouting utter nonsense.
Private enterprise over communism!😊
@@jabbermocky4520bet you’re the life of the party….
No mention of John Howland who fell overboard and was resued and eventually founded Augusta Maine. My wife is one of his descendants. Also Richard Warren.
I wonder what the chief thought when he went in the house and could smell the host. This is why Hawaiians met with the British outside of their meeting halls.😅
“One can tell a great deal about a country by what it chooses to remember.
One can tell even more by what a nation chooses to forget.”
-The Atlantic, On Reconstruction, pg.22
Take the good with the bad. Keep both stories on record. For future reference.
No one is forgetting anything
Trumplikins forget all.😅
@@seankearney6632There always has to be a tard that brings hateful politics into every discussion...even about the Mayflower. Get a life.
OK Karen@@karentucker2161
Psst, just to get you updated … the story begins long long before 1620. Long before Jamestown. Long before Roanoke Island. The Spanish arrived in La Florida a century before.
Why are the people claiming they discovered us? Were we lost or something ,m far flung stories of Vikings, Chinese m space aliens discovering us long before Columbus.....
St Augustine Florida was and still is
the oldest city in America. The goal of the Spanish was to find gold and resources.
St Augustine was a stopping place for ships loaded with South American plunder before they made the crossing to Spain.
The settlements in the North coast were mostly about freedom of religeon.
Most of us being of English decent it is our story that interests us the most.
Nobody cares about the Spain. I'm not even sure it's a first world country anymire?
There is a replica of the Mayflower in Plymouth, Ma that people can tour. I could never imagine how they fit on that vessel, must have been terrible. Interesting to tour Plymouth Plantation which re-enacts how the pilgrims lived.
Have had honor of seeing it several times actually sailing around Plymouth and points south. Simply beautiful sight and gets the imagination going in a good direction.
Mary Smith 9361 There was a few years ago a plan to rebuild a Mayflower at Harwich, Essex, England, but after the money was raised through contributions from the Public everthing went quiet. UK Police finally got involve and it ended up as being a big scam, yes the Person responsible had some of the Ship rebuilt using unemployed local people to the same standard as the Original Mayflower, I have seen the Keel and a few of the cross Ribs and that still remains in Harwich, Essex, England. The Captain of the Mayflower lived in Harwich prior to sailing on that long journey. The Original Mayflower was built at Killingholme Haven on the South Bank of the River Humber, mid way up the East Coast of England. So would not the building site of the Mayflower be marked as where the Journey began? There is a Blue Plaque (Historical Building or Site of Interest) at Killingholme Haven to commemorate the site. Tony in Essex, England
I suggest you read Colin Woodards: American Nations. It would appear he will not agree that the Pilgrims were into freedom of religion. It was free only if you adhere to THEIR religion. Anyone who cuts off the noses of Quakers would not seem to think outside of the box on this topic
Sounds like he was a leftist😂
Around my 8th great-grandfather agreed with the Quakers right for their beliefs. Many were killed for supporting the Quakers. They ex communicated him for a while. But let him live. Probably because he was the son of the Pilgrim pastor Rev John Robinson my 9th grandfather.
The first English settlement in the new world was 1607 in Jamestown Virginia. The first European settlement was at St. Augustine Florida in 1595.
Spent time in both locations very educational experience. Both offer museums & the likes.
No, the first surviving settlement. in Virginia. and back then Virginia was a territory that I recently learned reached all the way to the Hudson River for a time.
Some of my own ancestors came to the Dutch colonies on the Hudson River, they were Huguenots an in the case of the Steele family, were fleeing the King of England for political reasons. A number of my ancestors were Pilgrims/Puritans who landed in Mass. and then moved westwards. All my ancestors moved westwards ending up in California during the Gold Rush.
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@@BlackiscipleDid u know who was the narrator in this film! The credits list failed to mention this !
Family history is fascinating! One of my ancestors, Pietro Alberti, was a member of the aristocracy from what's now Northern Italy (his grandfather, Giacomo Boncompagni, was the illegitimate son of a pope), and had to flee to escape from would be assassins. He figured the Netherlands would be far enough from Italy, moved there, and married a Dutch lady. He found out a few years later that the Netherlands were not, in fact, far enough from Italy, as he narrowly escaped from a would-be assassin sent by his old enemies. He moved his family across the ocean to New Amsterdam, which was captured by England a few years later and renamed New York.
The Native American woman did not tell the truth about the pilgrims paying back for the corn they took. In the records it says they did pay them back for the corn they took. She needs to read the pilgrim records.
At 1 point the natives were very ill & the pilgrims tool good care of them! They were friends and allies with numerous tribes!
And we accept their word overthe native women why? Upshot is we do not know .
You saying the were growing corn already? Then why were they starving? Corn is an american crop hun. But . Maybe . Its two peoples word and theyr e all gone so we cannot test it now
They were also starving in a place iwth the rickest food sipply... they did not know how to find it. So yoy say they were grouwnga niatve crop to a degree they paid it back so soon? Unlikely but who can tell for aure ? No one is who .
Why not the pilgrims lied that they had paid for the seeds?
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent drawings/reenactments enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to guest speakers sharing their personal information/research. Making this documentary more authentic and possible.
Onboard the Mayflower not only the Pilgrims signed the compact, but all men - Pilgrims and fortune-seekers alike - signed it.
And no women!
Saints and Strangers
If women had also been “allowed” to sign the Compact, it would have been much more revolutionary.
No women 😢
I can't even recall my ancestral mother's names. Shame on me.
Considering that most people think that the natives never fought war with each other to determine who had the right to the land. It’s only all of mankind including the ancestors of the natives that fought wars for power and control of the land. WEIRD because the natives seem to think they didn’t fight for the land they occupied.
This documentary is interesting to me. I am a descendent of John Alden, Priscilla Mullins, and her father, William Mullins (my 11th great-grandfather). Unfortunately, it isn’t known if William’s wife, Alice Atwood, is Priscilla’s biological mother or her step-mother. John and Priscilla (my 10th great-grandparents) were married about 1621 and had a daughter, Ruth Alden, in 1634 who later married John Bass. That is the line I descended from.
Priscilla was my 16th times great grandmother.
I am a descendent from John and Priscilla Alden also. My grandfather's sister did research years ago. However, I am in the process of researching this in Ancestry to verify. It is so intriguing to look up all of this information.
Imagine a world in which the British would have adopted the ways of the Native Americans instead of forcing their "civilization" upon the land. I am a proud American with Native AND English heritage. I believe everything happens according to the will of the Lord, but it is interesting to imagine what could've been.
For sure!
They travelled for a better life not to live in worse conditions than they left behind.
I am the Bishop Rev. Robert Hernandez McDonald Jr and I am the 13th great grandson of Mayflower passenger William Brewster. I am also Mexican so my blood is the soil of America.
My ancestor was also Elder William Brewster! Nice to meet you cousin! My ancestry is through my matrilineal line. God bless you in Jesus Name!
i love listening about america. such history.
But we'll never live down what we did to Native and African Americans as profitable and shameful land grabs.
@@ReviewsChannel-e4r all of us have skeletons in our closets.
You americans have the most free free speech. You have written documents from past americans where you can learn from.
Study. Reflect. And move on.
@@ReviewsChannel-e4rThe Native Americans were doing that to each other first. And the Africans were too. So we should point angry fingers towards all.
@@ReviewsChannel-e4r not sure if your comment is for or against white Americans but I have no white guilt personally. Let's not play the blame game. I know that's the easy way out but it serves no one
"Of course." Resentment never wants to end.
My people didn't come on the Mayflower but they got here as soon as they could.
Thank you for expressing it for me.
What would the native Indians of today now about what happened.
They wouldn't have a clue just like the rest of us.
They had a long tradition of maintaining their history.
And Mayflower immigrants recorded what they did, including stealing the cache of corn.
@@jturtle5318that doesn't answer the question. Things could be a lot different be glad you're alive you can even type your comment. Move on with your life.
It’s sad that the native Americans who undoubtedly have European ancestry interviewed in this documentary are so bitter still after 400 years. It’s the same over here with the Aboriginal people in Australia. The native people conveniently neglect to mention that they themselves conquered and took the land off other native peoples.
I have always wondered why the Mayflower landing was considered the beginning of America, when many years earlier, the colony of Virginia was established and growing.
The civil war. As war propaganda the north made a big deal about the founding fathers making the Pilgrims the star over Jamestown since Jamestown was in the Confederacy.
The book Albion's Seed explains the characteristics of the founding subcultures of the United States. The settlers of New England came from East Anglia, while the settlers of Virginia came from Southwest England. Both groups were rivals for cultural influence and power. The book also covers the settlers of the Delaware Valley (Pennsylvania) and the borderers AKA the Scots-Irish.
Correct
Don't forget St. Augustine, Florida ... founded in 1565
Briefly:
All United States jurisprudence derives from the Mayflower Compact.
The Jamestown project was not by any means a self willed effort to reform the reformation and start afresh in a new land. (More of a compulsory work camp, actually.)
Lord forgive us our sins , in Jesus name amen
I am descended from both Brewster and Hopkins. Been to Leiden and did the Pilgrim walk. Beautiful town.
Wow. That's really something! Wish I had something more intelligent sounding but ....thats neat!
@glenngeeful had 5 on Mayflower if you count two wives and a daughter. Hopkins was in Jamestown and on that ship that wrecked in Bermuda. His first wife died so he went back home and came back with a new wife and children
Hopkins was a Stranger, Brewster was a Saint. They have a Pilgrim Museum in Leiden.
So cool, meeting distant cousins on TH-cam 😂 I'm decended from Hopkins as well. It's so cool watching things about monumental things in our country's history knowing your family was part of the story.
Family search informed me i had 17 ancestors on the Mayflower, including Bradford. Seemed crazy since I'm a California native, lol
Mayflower compact was vital..long live the memory of William Bradford
Yes my ancestors did bad things. I meet indigenous ppl all the time and we never have any animosity. Great ppl
EVERY person's ancestors did bad things, most did much worse than "bad". Nobody is innocent and clean of blood. The "noble savage" is a modern revisionist BS idea from people who never have dug into history at any location for any time period.
Why would there be
Peoples were conquered all over the globe. Never a pretty thing. But its inherently human. We conquer. Throughout history its been the story of man. Lands were fought over. The strong survive. Its the case in the animal kingdom and in the world of humans. Native Americans suffered the same fate as many cultures. It may be sad, but it has been the story of man. Man wars and right or wrong, to the victor goes the spoils. There is no room for crying. Its the way it is.
This video leans a bit left.
History is neither left or right it's history.
After getting to read everybody's comments does anyone know the recipe they used for turkey Happy Thanksgiving everyone
My family passed it down to me. It's called Diehard Extra Crispy Turkey, and involves butter, croutons, a Sears Die Hard battery and a set of heavy duty copper plated jumper cables. Guaranteed to knock your socks off.
When you roast the venison..and pumpkin and corn pudding....
This did not talk about life on the ship at all.
Where would be without you….
William and Mary Brewster were my 10th and 11th great grandparents.
Nice to meet you cousin! Mine too! ❤ Through my mother's ancestors and my dad's ancestors were from Norway and Germany. I only added that because I saw your username is Viking tea room. ❤
The lack of bathing and sanitation were a nasty issue. It affected all of those on board. The overwhelming body odor had to be tough on all people aboard that ship.
At that time poor hygiene was normal compared to our standards.
Yeppers
What smell?....I don't smell anything.
If everybody stinks, nobody stinks.
Buckets and spillage of human waste or sickness would likely be unbearable, sardined into the Mayflower.
Thank God they came to North America. Yes, I am grateful that they came to this land. God only knows what the world would be without the USA. Where would all the lost people of the world go if the USA didn't exist. I believe it's God's will that they came to this land.
Amazing history of our country. People can complain but Christains brought civilization to the world. Written language, printing press, planes, trains, autos, modern plumbing, construction, medical, government, law, satellites, DNA, Computers,etc.
And Islam brought much more. :)
Although quite a few things you list are a HUGE stretch. Lol, was government LONG before Christianity.
Don't forget the inquisition, the colonization of lands belonging to the native people, and enslaving our fellow human.🤔
Don’t forget, rape, murder, and cultural, white washing
Christians brought civilization ??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I simply LOVE their concept of 'virgin worship' 🙃😡 Convenient for men and their obsession !!! Many scientists and inventors were athiests or something in between. Your tunnel vision is AMAZING...and you need to get back to studying the history of this country AND the whole world.
I am decended from Issac and Mary Allerton and Thomas Rodgers 😊
I too am a descendent of Isaac Allerton, and his daughter Mary! Actually, a descendent of Mary’s granddaughter, Lydia
Hello from Guam USA, I too am descended from Issac and Mary Allerton. Also Robert and Thomas Cushman. Thomas Cushman married Mary Allerton who was the last surviving Mayflower passenger.
@@joseparaguahan I too am a descendant of Isaac and Mary Allerton, and Robert and Thomas Cushman, Mary Allerton, and Thomas Cushman’s granddaughter, Lydia! I did the DNA test and found out in 2018 as I traced my paternal grandmother’s lineage back to Plymouth and the Mayflower! She was from Lowell Massachusetts and came down here as a young woman to raise her family with her husband, my father, Raymond
I'm more interested in where they came from and what was happening in the country they fled. #OurHistory 🇬🇧📚🙏🇺🇸
They'd fled England due to religious persecution (seemed to change w each king or queen) and went to the Netherlands. They noticed after a generation or two their childrens minds were becoming diluted with worldly pleasures rather then how the reformation had molded their beliefs. A bit more to it but that's the crux of it. Of course a lot of scalawags joined in, just for the chance to escape prison or death penalty.
You should read Albion's Seed. It describes in some detail the founding subcultures of the United States. New England was settled by English people from East Anglia while Virginia was settled by English people from southwest England.
Very little honesty and solid facts. Mostly propaganda.
Richard Warren, Francis & John Cooke, Degory Priest, Issac Allerton are my ancestors, as is Philip Delano and others who made the voyage on the Anne in 1623. They endured incredible hardships, without them I would not be here. Literally.
Looks like we are distantly related as Issac Allerton is also in my genealogy.
“Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith,...” Mayflower Compact 1620.
You don't have a clue what life was like then lol james
Thank you for this video. I want to point out, though, that William Bradford's (and the other Separatists') Bible would have been the Geneva Bible, a translation with Calvinistic notes, and not a translation by John Calvin himself (who didn't speak English). The Calvinistic Geneva Bible and the High Church-leaning Bishop's Bible were predecessors to the KJV.
I'm fairly familiar with the KJV and don't recall the Geneva Bible was used. James 1st HATED the Calvinist ideas and especially hated the Geneva Bible with its slanted and even twisted interpretations in the side notes. That's why James was hardcore adamant the KJV have zero notes and such.
@@LuvBorderCollies Yup and this is why my own ancestors came to the New World wilderness rather than bow to King James.
You lost me with the last sentence. Separatists were fleeing king James and rejected his new Bible in favor of the older Geneva. That first 1621 Thanksgiving was in fact the Sukkot of the Torah
Your making some really good documentary's, thanks! ❤🎉😃🎞📽🎬
Glad you enjoy it!
If one is denoting all the wide range of docus made it's spelled in the plural DOCUMENTARIES
what you've spelled
Documentary's shows possession or ownership of the documentary to a noun......grammatical tossed salad nonsense😂
As a Brazilian I can say, the American Story is beautiful.
The Indians say the same in Brazil, but they all ways fight before, the Portuguese people come, that's why some tribes helping the Portuguese people against more violent tribes.
They all complained with mouth full.
The Pilgrims were in no way liberal in anything. Downvoted for the dumb intro.
Thank you! Happy Holidays from The Arden House, Priscilla Mullins❤
She was my 16th times great grandmother.
A living hell to answer your question.
Descendent of John Clark navigator of May flower.
All I know is that I get together with the ones I love on the fourth Thursday in November to give thanks for another year. To spend a day with the ones I love. To revel about the good and lament the bad. If you have to use it as a day to seed anger about the loss of people, places, and things from 400 years ago, I suggest you find some counseling to help you move forward. History should be used to study past events so we can repeat the good and prevent the bad... So take this lesson from history: if a shipload of men with black suits and tall hats show up in your yard, take over your garden shed, and start planting corn, think to the past and kick them out. If not, return to the table for more turkey or another slice of pumpkin pie and relax.
I found out a year ago I am the descendant of Stephen Hopkins/ Constance Hopkins Mayflower……
I was born a pure black child till at the age of 11 I realized I was white. I gave up eating Chitlins twice a week and started eating twinkies and ground beef. Thank you and good night.
It’s an interesting video, but many of the assertions do not align with what Bradford wrote in “Of Plymouth Plantation,” particularly what transpired with the natives. Bradford is an objective writer and what I read or hear about the Pilgrims I verify by what is in his account. By the way, I am a direct descendent of John Billington, a stranger, who was sentenced to death by Bradford.
What is not known generally was that the Plymouth Colony established women's makeup with a specific item. You have heard of the Mayflower Compact?!??
Not much about the ship or trip at all.
Ikr, guess we’ll never know what it was like on the Mayflower lol
🌎: " Bradford's journaling and history of his daily life, the boats and Mayflower boats ended-up with the Monarchy/businessAgents on board. They may have been 'tenured and would earn their newer more prosperous life. Canada areas were also 'tenured people, worked off family debt and could be free in New lands. Some, not all. The PBS tv show has "Jamestown" and it's being built and following the old journals. Thanks for your words and reading these. "
Really? Thanks for the warning!
I only clicked on this at all because long sea voyages have always fascinated me, whether they're large ships or tiny ones like the 10-foot "Yankee Girl" built by Gerry Spiess, who sailed that boat across the Atlantic way back in 1979.
Edit: Stupid spellcheck changed "Atlantic" to "Atlanta" -- "sailed across the Atlanta"? 😂
All humans are imperfect, all humans sin, but unrepentant haters, arrogant fools and evil narcissists will not be with the rest of us - change your evil ways, be humble and be Loving to others but never let the heathens kill you kin, Amen. Glory be to GOD in the Highest!❤GLORY GLORY GLORY, HOLY HOLY HOLY❤
Surely this is an english story not american.😮
Brewster, Howland and Hopkins descendant here.
Hello "cousin"! My ancestor was William Brewster too.
@@joyful_tanya So happy to meet another Brewster descendant! he's my favorite!
I am a verified Mayflower descendant of Elder William Brewster, Stephen Hopkins and Thomas Rogers. This was interesting, but there are many books on their journey from England to Holland back to England and then the New World.
Verified William and Mary Brewster descent also. Hello cousin
Is their nobody in this commentary that wasn't related to someone in the Mayflower? I guess it's no coincidence ! LOL!
Thank you!
One major reason they were dying was from alcohol withdrawal. In those times, these people wouldn't drink water because back in Europe, all the water was either polluted or salt water. They drank beer, wine, and gin. And they when they got to America they had no booze and nothing to ferment. Imagine a ship full of alcoholics, with no booze. It's amazing any of them survived, and were able to build stills, and open the first tavern.
The Pilgrims in their righteousness and their enlightened tolerance were the moving force of destiny.
The thing that pisses me off about these videos is about, "America". They claim they brought America to America but America was already here or we wouldn't have, Native Americans. What I see is that America was already here but eventually it was divided up between North, Middle and South and then into countries. Which of course morphed over time due to power struggles. That's an honest take. Not an, 'we brought America to America' take.
Actually, there was no America until 1776 which makes everybody born on this soil after that year a Native American even me a white European
Nothing but genocide...and they still brag about it. 🤮
The natives were here first.All of us europeans just showed up and said we were laying a claim on a piece of land.our ancesters decided to vall themselves Americans later on.
There were no ‘’native Americans”. They were just natives.
What are you talking about. The phrase "The creation of the United States of America" is accurate. I'm sure the Native Americans did not call their land The United States of America. I'm sure they didn't call themselves Native Americans either.
Words of the Mayflower Compact>
th-cam.com/video/p23gF9jQdnM/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared. The Geneva Bible is also iconic of the Mayflower.
Where/How did they poop,shave and shower...how many cows did they have ?
They pooped over the bow of the ship, which is why today its still called " the head on a ship".Washing and shaving, they would not shave on a voyage fresh water too precious. Any form of washing even clothes would have been done with sea water. Water was often carried as weak beer, the only way to stop water going rancid. On a ship that size I doubt they carried more that one ot two cows. The amount of feed needed for two cows would take a lot of space. Maybe two healthy cows and a bull. More likely to have carried a couple of goats and chickens. Goats will eat anything.
@@stevedavy2878 well you are in the ball park. But you can shave with sea water. The question should be asked. Did they shave. Men did not shave as much back then. Add to this the religion practice of shaving.
I don't know about the Curtains. But they are close to Quaker's. Which there are different standards for married and unmarried for shaving.
People make a lot of things up about past hygiene. Act like people didn't bath.
Well in some it's true. But most cases is poppycock.
Who wants to bath in freezing water?
I know some like it. But I don't.
People are too worried about bathing. They come up with many lies about it.
You will not get sick if you don't bath for months. But others will smell you.
And men can go much longer without bathing then women.
Women are naturally filthy creatures. They will make you sick if they don't bath. Has to due with the wet mound and growing of yeast.
The common cold is from filthy women.
There really isn't anything a woman can do except bath twice a day to reduce this.
However. Adding perfume or other garbage that women use to hide thier filth. Just makes matter worse.
And when I say men don't need to bath for months. I'm referring to strait men. Homos are more filthy then women.
Want to get sick? Eat a snatch that hasn't bath in a week.
But people other bath on ships. They just used sea water.
This whole idea of people in the past not bathing is stupid. It's no different then thinking people in the past were not as smart as they are today. Which isn't saying much.
They were magic...didn't poop
This was a very good documentary, however I would have preferred MORE voices from the First Nations peoples other than the Wampanoag / Narraganset Medicine Woman and the Leader of the Massachuset-Ponkapoag Tribal Council. Just saying it would have been helpful. Who?? Well the Delaware tribe also known as the Manahatta of the Lenape Nation who were displaced from their lands owing to European Settlements of the Dutch and then the English; The Shinequoc also part of the Lenape / Narraganset / Wampanoag Nations located out in Hampton Bay Long Island, NY. Yeah. They're still here!! [Where are they going? They're home!!] Their Pow Wows are held every Labor Day Weekend. Cheers from NYC!!!
For some reason, the ships cargo contained an awful lot of shoes. Many more than you'd expect or need.
Shoe love is true love!
I think it was the hardest clothing article to make in the New World. They took a beating every day by working in the dirt and worse for leather...getting wet and drying out by a fire...repeat. Garments needed less specialized tools and skill. Plus suitable leather from cowhide would be a long time coming.
Then how come the ship wasn't named the Imelda Marcos? lol Tradesmen, farmers and cooks were on board.
My understanding is that Priscilla Mullins father was a cord waiter (shoemaker) and intended to makes his fortune by selling his goods to other colonists.
Cordwainer, not cord waiter
Great Video of America
They burned witches in the new world just like they burned witches in the old world( Salem witch trials). Coming to the New World, they should have left their old baggage behind.
How did New Amsterdam wind up becoming New York? Nothing seems to be taught about the Dutch colony
Interested in knowing some of that history How did Vanderbilt and Roosevelt tend to become wealthy names?
How were the pilgrims sailing "into the unknown? By 1620 when they set out, Englishmen had been settled in North America for 13 years. Even the pilgrims' failed trial of communism wasn't the first in North America. When the Jamestown settlers arrived in Virginia in 1607, they tried the same thing. The "gentlemen" didn't work and the commoners did -- until John Smith took command and declared "...he who does not work will not eat...". The pilgrims were walking a trail that had been blazed years earlier by Englishmen. The Jamestown colonists' lives were so difficult that by the time life in Virginia stabilized, over 400 of the total population had died of illness or starvation. Only one of the original Jamestown colonists - Robert Beheathland - has living descendants in North America today.
Stretch the truth much?, this is propaganda.
Another fine example of American exceptionalisim...
which is complete egotisic
bullshit. Otherwise it is a good
video worth watching.
I always laugh not just at people leaving comments here, but also the "scholars" in these documentaries that insist on crying about events that happened (or may not have happened) 400 years ago. They all try to assign blame or virtue to a group of people or an entire race of people for stealing land that was stolen from someone else, that was stolen from someone before that.
The truth is that mankjnd is a cruel species regardless of what color skin they have or may have had, and whatever group has the most power at any given point in history gets to make the rules. It's been that way since the first humans left the trees and began walking upright.
Every race of people has been enslaved (yes, white people too) and oppressed at some point in the past. You need look no further for proof of this than the origins of the word "slave." Surely you're familiar with Russians and people from the Caucasus being referred to as Slavs or Slavic? All of you modern social justice crusaders would benefit from actually taking a history class instead of constantly trying to rewrite it according to your 2023 ideas of which race is the most evil.
My ancestors came over on the second ship after the Mayflower, Niña, and Santa Maria. Settling with land grants in the area now called Boston, MA. Spicifically my ancestors settled in Braintree, MA. Their decendents faught in the Revolutionary war. As they were here over 150 years before that time. We ended up all over the USA, founding churches, and colleges.
The Niña and Santa Maria, were the ships that Columbus used along with the Pinta.
That's really cool to know that much & have that much significance in your family tree. ❤
You should probably brush up on your history…
Before you make up stories on the Internet you might want to know what your talking about
He is delusional, not knowledgeable @@usmc_sunscreenqueen
Just some Facts as I was taught at school in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. The Mayflower was built at Killingholme Haven, not far from present day Immingham, Lincolnshire. There is a Memorial Blue Plaque at the site the Mayflower was constructed. From Grimsby it sailed to Boston for more Pilgrim Passengers to embark and onward to Holland to pick up more Pilgrim Passengers. From Holland it set sail again across the North Sea and along the South Coast of Engalnd before sailing across the Atlantic. Those are the Facts as I know them. Tony in England.
My ancestor arrived 29 years later . Very hardy people