. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . imes in her career, from London, Yar-mouth and Southampton. Dr. Harris of Manchester, England, claims he has proofthat she was used as a whale ship in the Greenland whale fishery up to the year is a curious coincidence that the compact signed by the forty-one male mem-bers of the company was on November nth, now known as ArmisticeDay. This compact and the names of the signers have been inscribed on amemorial tablet in the Town Hall yard at Provincetown, and on the front of thetablet appear these words:— This Memor
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . imes in her career, from London, Yar-mouth and Southampton. Dr. Harris of Manchester, England, claims he has proofthat she was used as a whale ship in the Greenland whale fishery up to the year is a curious coincidence that the compact signed by the forty-one male mem-bers of the company was on November nth, now known as ArmisticeDay. This compact and the names of the signers have been inscribed on amemorial tablet in the Town Hall yard at Provincetown, and on the front of thetablet appear these words:— This Memorial stone is erected by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to commemorate the compact, or Constitution of Government, signed by the Pilgrims on board the Mayflower in Provincetown Harbor November nth, 1620, old style. It is interesting to know that the seal of Provincetown has a picture of the scroll,upon which the compact was recorded, and on it are these words: Compact 24 PLYMOUTH and SOUTHAMPTON v^a ^c.^ -^/ ■^^£S^^^J^ Tip t-litilU? S^F~ - .•. PAo/(7gra/>Ac4/(Tr rA« 5/a/e 5(r«/rr« J/Company /\-. l( (, TABLET PLACED NEAR THE SUPPOSED LANDING PLACE OF THE PILGRIMS, ATPROVINCETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS Nov. II, 1620. Birthplace of American Liberty. Another tablet, shown above,marks the supposed first landing place of the Pilgrims and is inscribed as follows:— THE FIRST LANDING PLACE of the PILGRIMS, NOV. II, 1620. The map in Mourts relation Shows that near this spot THE PILGRIMS First touched foot on American soil Erected by the Research Club of Provincetown1917 This same organization is also planning to place a memorial on a boulder in theoldest cemetery, in memory of the four Pilgrims who died while the Mayflowerwas anchored in the harbour. There is still another inscription on a wooden markerat the foot of Town Hill, indicating the place where the first washing was done. PLYMOUTH and SOUTHAMPTON 25 The gigantic Pilgrim MemorialMonument in Provincetown wasd
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