Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower

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#1 The Mayflower had set sail with three pregnant mothers: Elizabeth Hopkins, Susanna White, and Mary Allerton. They had endured long delays, seasickness, and cold weather, but they had helped the carpenter repair the ship’s fractured beam.

#2 The English Puritans who founded the colony of Virginia Company in 1607 were a very different sort of group than the typical noblemen, craftsmen, and servants who had founded Jamestown in Virginia. They were mostly families who were willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased.

#3 The Puritans believed that they were pilgrims on a divinely ordained mission to establish a Christian colony in America. They were well prepared to face the difficulties of a strange and hard land, and they were knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond.

#4 The Pilgrims were a group of English people who were almost always on the move. They had lost their homes and their land, and they were searching for a new place to live. William Bradford was among the first to write about their journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669389064

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Mayflower had set sail with three pregnant mothers: Elizabeth Hopkins, Susanna White, and Mary Allerton. They had endured long delays, seasickness, and cold weather, but they had helped the carpenter repair the ship’s fractured beam.

#2

The English Puritans who founded the colony of Virginia Company in 1607 were a very different sort of group than the typical noblemen, craftsmen, and servants who had founded Jamestown in Virginia. They were mostly families who were willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased.

#3

The Puritans believed that they were pilgrims on a divinely ordained mission to establish a Christian colony in America. They were well prepared to face the difficulties of a strange and hard land, and they were knit together as a body in a most strict and sacred bond.

#4

The Pilgrims were a group of English people who were almost always on the move. They had lost their homes and their land, and they were searching for a new place to live. William Bradford was among the first to write about their journey.

#5

The Puritans were radical and deeply conservative. They believed that the Bible was the only reliable account of Christ’s time on earth, and that it contained a rich storehouse of still vital truths. They had no use for the Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer, since it tampered with the original meaning of the Bible.

#6

A Puritan was taught to recognize the stages by which he or she might experience a sureness of redemption. It began with a powerful response to the preaching of the word, in which God revealed the heights to which a person must aspire if he or she was to achieve grace.

#7

The Separatists were a group of Puritans who believed in spiritual discipline, but they also believed in spontaneity. They met at Brewster’s manor house, and when the bishop of York became aware of them, they had to flee England.

#8

The ministers of several English Separatist congregations began to advocate positions that put them at odds with their own flocks. The majority of the congregation moved to the neighboring city of Leiden, where they were free to establish themselves on their own terms.

#9

The Pilgrims were a group of close friends who were exiled from England because of their religious beliefs. They were very clannish, and they always seemed to be getting duped by others.

#10

The Pilgrims’ plans were still far from complete. They had a patent, but they hadn’t yet figured out how they were going to finance the endeavor. But William Bradford’s faith in the undertaking was so strong that he sold his house in the spring of 1619.

#11

The Pilgrims were not looking to Holland, but instead went to London and hired Thomas Weston to help them get to America. They agreed to a joint stock company