List of Mayflower passengers

Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, painting by William Halsall (1882)

This is a list of the passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Of the passengers, 37 were members of a separatist Puritan congregation in Leiden, The Netherlands (also known as Brownists), who were seeking to establish a colony in the New World[1] where they could practice their religion without interference from the English government or church.[2] The Mayflower departed with 102 passengers, 74 male and 28 female, and a crew headed by Master Christopher Jones. About half of the passengers died in the first winter. Many Americans can trace their ancestry back to one or more of these individuals who have become known as the Pilgrims.

  1. ^ Bradford 1856, p. 24.
  2. ^ "Who Were the Pilgrims?".

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