Notable Native Names
According to William Bradford, he acted as an interpreter and taught the Pilgrims “how to set their corn, where to take fish…and never left them till he died."
Who is Squanto (Tisquantum)?
The oldest parts of this house were built in the 18th century by the great grandson of Pilgrim Edward Winslow.
What is the Mayflower Society House?
He served as an Elder of the Seperatist church, and while living in Leyden printed books and tracts considered illegal in England.
Who is William Brewster?
staple crop for the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims, William Bradford referred to it as "more precious than silver."
What is corn (maize)?
One of three pregnant women on the Mayflower, she gave birth to her son Peregrine while the ship was still anchored off Cape Cod.
Who is Susanna White (Winslow)?
When discord arose between the Pilgrims after the Mayflower's arrival in New England, it was agreed upon to "submit to such government and governors as we should by common consent agree to make and choose" and this document was signed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This visiting Abenaki sachem, who had learned some English from fishermen, greeted the Pilgrims in the spring of 1620/21.
Who is Samoset?
During an attempted move to Plymouth's Town Square in 1774, it accidentally broke in half.
What is Plymouth Rock?
The minister of the Seperatist church in Leyden, he did not travel on the Mayflower and instead stayed behind with the rest of the congregation.
Who is John Robinson?
A geographical landmark near Plymouth bears the name of this fish, which the Pilgrims intended to salt and send back to England for profit.
Of the 18 adult married women who traveled on the Mayflower, only this many were still alive about a year later at the First Thanksgiving.
What is 4? (Mary Brewster, Elinor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins & Susanna White Winslow)
A veteran of the wars between the Dutch and Spanish, he was chosen as the Pilgrims' Captain on Feburary 17, 1620/21.
Who is Myles Standish?
This Pokanoket pniese (warrior) was a counsellor to Massasoit Ousamequin and a friend to the Pilgrims until his death in 1642.
Who is Hobomok?
In 1957 this ship sailed from England to America in 55 days, quicker than the original Mayflower.
What is the Mayflower II?
Since the Seperatist chruch didn't celebrate holidays or saint's days, William Bradford asked some of Plimoth's residents to stop playing games in the street on this day & instead mark it with private devotion inside their houses.
What is Christmas?
One complaint from some of Plimoth's residents was that they now had to drink this, instead of things they were accostumed to back home like beer or wine.
What is water?
Her family had a reputation for being troublemakers, and after the death of her husband she was accused of slander and sentenced to whipping and sitting in the stocks.
Who is Elinor Billington?
In 1623 the Pilgrims built their fort atop the hill that is known today as this.
What is Burial Hill?
He was the sachem of Cummaquid on Cape Cod, and assisted the Pilgrims during their journey to retrieve John Billington who had been lost in the woods.
Who is Iyanough?
In order to save and preserve this building, in 2018 the First Parish Church congregation donated it to GSMD.
What is the Mayflower Meetinghouse?
This was the version of the Bible preferred by the Seperatist church because of its annotations & what they believed was a truer translation.
What is the Geneva Bible?
To this day these fish run up Plymouth's Town Brook every spring to spawn. In the 17th century, Squanto showed the Pilgrims how to bury them in the ground as manure for their crops.
What are herring?
A tall, beaver felt hat attributed to her can be viewed at Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth.
Who is Constance Hopkins (Snow)?
He was described as "a man well approved amongst us," and elected as Plimoth's first governor.
Who is John Carver?
Called by Edward Winslow "a special friend," this man served as one of Plimoth's interpreters and guides.
Who is Tokamahamon?
Originally named First Street, it claims to be the oldest continously inhabited street in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America.
What is Leyden Street?
The manor house in this small Nottinghamshire village served as a gathering place for some of the Separatist Pilgrims before their move to the Netherlands.
What is Scrooby?
Mourt's Relation says during the Pilgrims' first exploration of Cape Cod, the party brought with them three food items: biscuit, cheese and this distilled liquor whose name comes from the Latin for "water of life."
What is aquavitae?
Though her first name is unknown, record survives of her attending a secret burial of child, which resulted in her excommunication from the Church of England.
Who is Mrs. Chilton?
In a letter back home, Edward Winslow encouraged men coming to Plimoth to bring with them either a "fowling-piece" or this type of smoothbore long barreled gun.
What is a musket?