The Mayflower compact is a significant historical document, the "wave-rocked cradle of our liberties", as one historian evocatively put it. Signed by the Pilgrims and the so-called Strangers ...

When the pilgrims land safely, they write the Mayflower Compact and start constructing their new church and colony. However, it is already the autumn season and they do not have much food stored ...

these 17th Century "pilgrim fathers" are also real-life ancestors. But for how many? There are a few estimates out there, all of them quite high. According to the General Society of Mayflower ...