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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-10-10 5:36 PM, wrote:
>> people put their animosity asideOn Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:21:42 -0500, Sqwertz > wrote:
at least Google some information when given a chance to save face.
>>
>> I didn't have the heart to tell her that the Pilgrim fathers didn't
>> set sail from Plymouth. The majority of passengers embarked from
>> London, then Southampton for the remainder of passengers and supplies.
>> They stopped at Plymouth briefly but the water they needed was
>> contaminated with cholera. So their last stop before America was at
>> Lewlyn for fresh, safe water (and ObFood: probably some Cornish
>> pasties, too).
>>
>> -sw
>
> So why the memorial in Plymouth and the identical one in Plymouth, New
> England? They did originally set sail from a Cornish port but were
> forced by weather to go into Plymouth and wait.
>

They actually started their voyage from Leiden in the Netherlands. The
Pilgrims were a bunch of extremist Protestants that had been shit
disturbers back in England and were political emigres in the
Netherlands. Their ship was leaking so they had to stop in England and
ended up on the Mayflower instead.