The End of the Mayflower The Mayflower returned to England from Plymouth Colony, arriving back on 9 May 1621. No further record of the Mayflower is found until May 1624, when it was appraised for the purposes of probate and was described as being in ruinis. The ship was almost certainly sold off as scrap.

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Mayflower Compact, document signed on the English ship Mayflower on November 21 [November 11, Old Style], 1620, prior to its landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America.

The Mayflower Compact is the agreement between the 41 male passengers of the ship Mayflower establishing the form of government of the Plymouth Colony (1620-1691 CE), signed on 11 November 1620 CE off the coast of present-day Massachusetts, USA.

The Mayflower Compact was an iconic document in the history of America, written and signed aboard the Mayflower on November 11, 1620 while anchored in Provincetown Harbor in Massachusetts. The original of the Mayflower Compact has long been lost, possibly stolen during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).

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Subsequent research in England in the last century has revealed that the More children were actually members of the gentry and the only Mayflower passengers to have proven royal descent, from King Henry II of England and King David I of Scotland. 13 November 1614 in Shipton Parish, Shropshire, England.

The weather was much colder than what the Pilgrims had prepared for and the first winter was devastating. The Pilgrims struggled to build homes, and many families crowded into the few homes that were built. Food was scarce, and many Pilgrims starved to death that first winter.