The beginner's American history . great friend to those who did. About a hundred of these people sailed from Plymouth,^England, for the New World, in the ship Mayflowei^ Manyof those who went were children and young people. ThePilgrims had a long, rough passage across the the last ofber (1620) they sawIt was Cape Cod, that nar-row strip of sand, more thansixty miles long, which lookslike an arm bent at the el-bow, with a hand like a half-shut fist. Finding that it would bedifficult to go further, thePilgrims decided to land andexplore the cape; so theMayflower entered Cape Cod
The beginner's American history . great friend to those who did. About a hundred of these people sailed from Plymouth,^England, for the New World, in the ship Mayflowei^ Manyof those who went were children and young people. ThePilgrims had a long, rough passage across the the last ofber (1620) they sawIt was Cape Cod, that nar-row strip of sand, more thansixty miles long, which lookslike an arm bent at the el-bow, with a hand like a half-shut fist. Finding that it would bedifficult to go further, thePilgrims decided to land andexplore the cape; so theMayflower entered Cape Cod Harbor, inside the half-shut fist, and then came toanchor. Before they landed, the Pilgrims held a meeting in thecabin, and drew up an agreement in writing for the gov-ernment of the settlement. They signed the agreement,and then chose John Carver for governor. Many Puritans came to New England with Governor Winthrop in 1630; after theysettled in America they established independent churches Hke the Plymouth (Plimuth).. 42 THE BEGINNER S AMERICAN HISTORY. 65. Washing-day ; what Standish and his men found on theCape. — On the first Monday after they had reached thecape, all the women went on shore to wash, and so Mondayhas been kept as washing-day in New England ever after that, Captain Myles Standish, with a numberof men, started off to see the country. They found some
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