Subject:  American Minute - November 12 - Pilgrims landed
Date:  Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:25:25 GMT
American Minute with Bill Federer
November 12

This day, November 12, 1620, was the Pilgrims' first full day in America.
It took over two months for the one hundred and three of them, cramped between decks on the tiny Mayflower, to cross the freezing North Atlantic.
They had intended to sail to Jamestown, but were blown off course by violent storms and landed at Plymouth Rock.
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."
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