History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . ided inworking the craft during a head-on wind, but the squaresail rig perceptibly lengthened voyages. The death of a ship in England did not mean the deathof a name any more than in the United States Navy, andit is fair to assume, if the Mayflower was broken up in1624, that the whaler Mayflower, of some two hundredtons, in service in 1654, carried in tree top and hull theright of succession. English shipping lists from the year1620 onward, show at least forty different Mayflowers, in-cluding the c
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . ided inworking the craft during a head-on wind, but the squaresail rig perceptibly lengthened voyages. The death of a ship in England did not mean the deathof a name any more than in the United States Navy, andit is fair to assume, if the Mayflower was broken up in1624, that the whaler Mayflower, of some two hundredtons, in service in 1654, carried in tree top and hull theright of succession. English shipping lists from the year1620 onward, show at least forty different Mayflowers, in-cluding the coaster captured by Paul Jones in 1779. Somein the list of English ships both in peace and war by thelength of their pedigree remind us of a Welshmans epitaph,or even of Melchizedek. In the tercentenary year. Jealous Umbrage, on bothsides of the ocean, as represented by Southampton andProvincetown, clasped hands across the sea for self-preserva-tion, each seeking to grasp the laurels extended by gratefulnations to Plymouth of England and Plymouth of Massa- THE PILGRIMS JOURNEY TO VIRGINIA 291. 292 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS chusetts. Technically, it must be admitted that at South-ampton the Mayflower was fitted out for the voyage, JohnCarver spending some £7,000 for supplies, in addition toCushmans London expenditures. The little Pilgrim company, aflame with religious zeal,filed beneath Southamptons ancient archway to take shipfor what was to them the unknown Land of Farnesses,told of by the prophet Isaiah, over whose pages they spentmany hours of rapture. They could not then foresee thattheir hearts, already sick with delays and hope deferred,were once more to sink, when three hundred miles atsea they were to meet not only a storm-lashed Atlantic,but more probably even a faint-hearted captain, that drovethem back to shelter at Plymouth, This landing, thoughonly a temporary stop-ofif, was costly. They had to trimship and start again, leaving behind them some twenty so
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