This book by Edmund J. Carpenter tells the story of the establishment of Plymouth colony. It includes sketches of the lives of well-known Pilgrim settlers. Young people will understand the true motivations and struggles of the Pilgrims as they read this book. This book contains several pictures and illustrations. Grade 9 and up.

Biographies of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.

If you are hunting for a Mayflower ancestor, you will find a great deal of pedigree material on the Mayflower planters and other early settlers in Plymouth and Cape Cod in this mammoth work. Based largely on the genealogy of Mayflower planter Stephen Hopkins, this work includes both his male and female lines through a number of generations. Since four of Hopkins' children intermarried with descendants of many of the "first comers" to Plymouth and Cape Cod, this work is brimming with Mayflower connections.

Discusses the importance of the Mayflower Compact to the Pilgrims because they were beginning a democracy in the New World.

The Mayflower Compact is the first document to promise just and equal laws for all" in the New World. Here is the story of those men, women, and children that signed the compact.

A description of the Pilgrim's life on the Mayflower as they sailed to America.

"The body of a very special lady lies under the water, waiting. As each year of her long, lonely vigil passes, piece after rotting piece of her broken corpse silently drifts away.

When the Mayflower embarked on her famous voyage to America in 1620, she was carrying 102 passengers. To most, they are simply known as “the Pilgrims.” Perhaps the name of Governor William Bradford, Elder William Brewster, or Captain Myles Standish are vaguely familiar; but the vast majority of the Mayflower passengers have remained anonymous and nameless. In The Mayflower and Her Passengers, I have attempted to resurrect the unique individuality of each passenger by providing short biographies for each person or family group. Also included is a groundbreaking new biography of the Mayflower ship itself.