1] Formed: From the ministry, teaching & blood of Two Martyrs:

2] From one congregation, Few in number [about 120 members]

3] Faced great persecution & hardship for their Faith [Had they been willing to go to America freely, perhaps God would not have allowed persecution!]

4] “Foxes book of Martyrs” over 800 severs persecutions, banishment's, burnings, many during the Puritan-Pilgrims era

5] Forfeited their living Feared the Future

6] Fifteen years & Five ships just to get to a Land of Freedom

7] Fifty died the First winter

8] Found Squanto who Favored them [God moved in 1607 on both continents]

9] Forty years they & their children labored to pay off their debts to Merchants

10] Formed a New Nation, the first democratic nation with Freedom for all [MC]

A] Wealthiest nation of all time, Financing more missionaries than all other nations of all the ages combinedB] Greatest military of all time, bringing freedom, peace, and salvation to more nations than all other nations combined

All Crammed on the Tiny Mayflower!

All crammed on Mayflower

1] About 30 feet by 60 feet in size for all 102 2] Only 4 feet high 3] Because of bad storms, they were not allowed above deck 4] No heat! 5] No cooked food [The Bastard cast over board & drowned] 6] One passenger panicked, opened hatch, and a wave flooded the inside. 7] William Bradford [age 30] , leader, his wife fell overboard & drowned??? 8] ***Borrowed money to get to America: The Merchant company was deeded 100 acres for each settler transported to “New England” Worked most of their life to pay off the debt to get to 9] ***Kids completed the debt: 40 years in full 10] Unable to reach their land, they came ashore where they could! [See ***** below] And started a New Government & a New World!

Notes of Squanto's Journeys

Squanto! 1] 1 Of 2 kidnapped in 1607 by explorer 2] Taken to England where he learned English 3] Returned to America with another mapping company to guide 4] Captured again by Mr Hunt who took them to Spain, sold as slaves 5] Purchased by Catholic monks and given freedom: became christian 6] Came to America gain as guide, promised freedom: two years later, his whole tribe dead. 7] Wondered from tribe to tribe: didn’t fit.

First Thanksgiving Dinner with Native Tribes

Thanksgiving Dinner:

maize, or "Indian Corn." Furthermore, there were chestnuts, walnuts, butternuts, beech, hazel and hickory nuts. There was plum, cherry, mulberry and persimmon, as well as pumpkins, squashes, beans, rice, melons, tomatoes, huckleberries, blackberries, strawberries, black raspberries, cranberries, gooseberries and grapes, all growing wild or easily cultivated. There was game, large and small, and fish and seafood.