Saints and Strangers on the Mayflower
Not to mention hired and indentured servants, who all stumbled into Patuxent
I don't recall where I found George F. Willison's 1945 book, Saints and Strangers: Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and Their Families, with Their Friends and Foes. But it was a real eye-opener. There were 102 passengers on the Mayflower; only 17 men, 10 women and 14 children were from the Separatist congregation seeking to worship differently than the Church of England.
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