Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
The significance of the Mayflower has over the years become a far overblown myth. The settlement at Plymouth, Massachusetts, wasn't even the first permanent English colony in the New World. That was Jamestowne, Virginia, founded in 1607. The Mayflower didn't arrive until some 13 years later.
True! My mother used to say (before I showed her that SHE had Mayflower ancestors) the her ancestors were on the dock (at Jamestown) waiting for the Mayflower, but they went off course and ended up on Plymouth Rock. In fact, the first ship of African slaves arrived in 1619, two years before the Mayflower.