- About 10 million Americans can trace their roots to the Pilgrims and the Mayflower
- The Pilgrims first moved to Holland, then to the New World
- It took the Mayflower 64 days to cross the Atlantic
- The Mayflower actually carried three distinct groups of passengers
- About half were, in fact, Separatists, the people we now know as the Pilgrims
- Another handful on board were sympathetic to the Separatist cause but weren’t actually part of that core group of dissidents
- The remaining passengers were hired hands—laborers, soldiers, and craftsmen
- The Mayflower first landed at the tip of Cape Cod, in what is now Provincetown
- Several of the Mayflower’s crew had made the journey at least once before, on either fishing or exploration trips
- The Pilgrims never made any attempts to convert outsiders to their faith, including the Native Americans they encountered in America