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 American Minute with Bill Federer

 September 16

 SEPTEMBER 16, 1620, according to the Gregorian Calendar, 102
 passengers set sail on the Pilgrims' ship, Mayflower.

 Their 66-day journey of 2,750 miles encountered storms so rough the
 beam supporting the main mast cracked and was propped back in place
 with "a great iron screw."

 One youth, John Howland, was swept overboard by a freezing wave and
 rescued.

 His descendants include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Humphrey Bogart,
 Franklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush.

 During the Pilgrims' voyage, a man died and a mother gave birth.

 Intending to land in Virginia, they were blown off-course.

 Of their landing, Governor William Bradford wrote:

 "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they
 fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought
 them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the
 perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and
 stable earth, their proper element."

 Though half died that first bitter winter, Governor William Bradford
 wrote:

 "Last and not least, they cherished a great hope and inward zeal of
 laying good foundations...for the propagation and advance of the
 gospel of the kingdom of Christ in the remote parts of the world."



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