Luke M.

The Mayflower


The Mayflower was a big sailing ship that took the Pilgrims to the New
World.  The ship was about 90 feet long. The Mayflower was a cargo ship
that was not made to carry people, but it did!
Pilgrims are alright when they arrived.


Pilgrims are people that go on very long journeys. The Mayflower brought
Pilgrims from England to North America. They found a colony called  
Plymouth. The Mayflower was very crowded because it was not made to
carry 132 people. This makes me think the people were frustrated. I
wonder if it was noisy?  People traveling on the Mayflower made their
home in the new world in the year 1620. Most of the passengers were
farmers or weavers or shopkeepers. Most men brought their families with
them. Some reasons people went to the new world was for work,
adventure, or to worship their god in their own way. This is why the
pilgrims came. On the Mayflower they could only bring a box for their
bible and a chest for everything else. I think it must of been hard to bring
all the hard stuff.
                     


The pilgrims hated the sailors. The sailors hated the pilgrims. The pilgrims
did not like the way the sailors made fun of them. Also the sailors used
bad language. The sailors did not like the pilgrims prayers and songs.  At
the end they were both happy to get to the new world.


The passengers ate the same kind of food every day and they got very
tired of it. Most of the time they ate cold food. There were a lot of bugs on
the ship and the pilgrims had to look at the bugs in their food. I wonder if
the pilgrims got sick a lot because of the food.    
  
Mayflower Compact the pilgrims signed.


The pilgrims were full of joy when they reached land. This land had no
homes or towns. The pilgrim leaders wanted everyone to be safe. Their
first agreement was the Mayflower Compact. This agreement promised
fair laws and 41 men signed this agreement. They made the compact
on
The ship before they went on land. I think they were excited and also
scared.  


When they got off the ship the women cleaned off their clothes. The
children ran all around the beach. I think this is because they needed to
stay on the ship for a long time. The men looked for a place to live.

Pilgrims going to land.

No comments:

Post a Comment