So the Pilgrims were Puritans. I am thankful to their desire to come here and serve the covenant God. I'm so tired of my college professors saying they were just coming here for greedy capitalism. They were honest and humble and though not perfect as none of us are, they were truly seeking to follow God.

Reading the comments, realizing that most people don’t understand/know history, but all are willing to offer their opinions.

I’m a descendent of John Billington (the first colonial murderer-I know!) and also of Eaton, both were “Strangers.” It wasn’t just a few “Strangers.” They made up fully half the people on the Mayflower.. The trip across the ocean would not have been made without the Strangers, as they paid fares to take this trip. Also, the Mayflower itself was leased by the “Stranger”-oriented Adventure Company, also responsible for getting the Strangers to sign up. I really have a soft spot in my heart for the Strangers--who never get much credit for their role in getting the American experiment going. They are usually left out of any celebrations. So, yay Strangers! Glad you made it!

William and Susanna (Jackson) White are my 8th great grandparents. Resolute, their 5 year old son at the time of the voyage and his wife Judith (Vassall) my 7th.

I learned I am a Mayflower descendant about a year ago. I can't imagine what it must have been like for them all on that voyage across the sea...

I love the statement from the older Native American at about 50 mins in. He says that what they are doing now is saying this is your land, you have to learn their language and follow their rules. That was not something imposed by the Pilgrims at all. Perhaps he should have better knowledge of his own history because this is what was done to tribes when they were conquered by other tribes. The Male tribal members were often killed, the women were taken and were used to increase the size of the conquering tribe. The facts are that the pilgrims were invited to stay by Massasoit. They entered into a treaty which lasted for over 50 years which was a mutual aid and mutual defense treaty to benefit both sides. The Wampanoag had suffered terribly from diseases ravaging their members in some areas with as high as 90% fatalities, this made them vulnerable to attacks from the Naraganset and other tribes. The other thing that gets me is that people have said that these diseases were intentionally introduced by the Europeans back then. This is ridiculous. With no microscopes and no understanding of how these diseases were formed or spread there is no way they could have known anything about what would have been fatal and what would not or even how they diseases were exactly transmitted. The fact that other encounters later did not go as well as this encounter with the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag does not mean you dismiss the importance of this encounter and the 50 years of peace and mutual defense that came from it.

Captain Myles Standish is my husband's 12th great grandfather. We are Canadians. Never knew until this year after researching ancestry did we realize we have a connection to the good old USA!

To the historian that said “they probably wouldn’t be palatable today” because they said that they would be great, and that the worlds eyes would be upon them that everyone would want to be like them. Well, they weren’t far off when they said it…. Sounds to me like you pronounced a blessing that came to pass. 😎🇺🇸

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25:50, the narrator says that John Smith founded a colony in Virginia (Jamestown.) Actually, It wasn't John, but the Virginia Company of London. In fact, men such as Newport, Gosnold, and Wingfield "outranked" (for lack of a better word,) Smith.

Those that came over on the Mayflower were not Puritans. They were Separatists. The Puritans arrived at Massachusetts Bay 7 years later. ... Today's Separatists would be Baptist Fundamentalists. What you think of them is what England including The Puritans thought of the Pilgrim Separatists.

The Puratins are my favorite group in American history.

The Bible the 'Pilgrim Fathers' brought with them was not a product of the Frenchman Jean (John) Calvin. The Holy Bible - Geneva Edition 1st Printing, 1st Edition in 1560 Given back to the people so all may understand The Geneva Bible was first printed in Geneva, Switzerland, by refugees from England, fleeing the persecution of Protestants by Roman Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary. Many copies were smuggled back into England at great personal risk. In later years, when Protestant-friendly Queen Elizabeth took the throne, printing of the Geneva Bible moved back to England. The Geneva Bible was produced by John Calvin, John Knox, Myles Coverdale, John Foxe, and other Reformers. It is the version that William Shakespeare quotes from hundreds of times in his plays, and the first English Bible to offer plain roman-style type in some of its early printings. The Geneva Bible was the first Bible taken to America, brought over on the Mayflower… it is the Bible upon which early America and its government was founded (certainly not the King’s of England’s Bible!) The Geneva Bible was also the first English Bible to break the chapters of scripture into numbered verses, and it was the first true “Study Bible” offering extensive commentary notes in the margins. It was so accurate and popular, that a half-century later, when the King James Bible came out… it retained more than 90% of the exact wording of the Geneva Bible. The Geneva Bible was the “Bible of the Protestant Reformation”, and the Bible of the Puritans and Pilgrims. It was the first Bible taken to America, brought over on the Mayflower. The Geneva Bible is the Bible upon which America was founded. You can imagine, most early American colonists, who were fleeing the religious oppression of the Anglican Church (Church of England), wanted nothing to do with the King James Bible of the Anglican Church! Textually, the Geneva Bible offered a number of radical never-before-seen changes: It was the first Bible in English to add numbered verses to each chapter of scripture. Also, the Geneva was the first Bible to introduce easier-to-read “Roman Style Typeface” rather than the “Gothic Blackletter Style Typeface” which had been used exclusively in earlier Bibles. Another curious innovation; the Geneva was the first “Study Bible” with extensive commentary notes in the margins. The Geneva Bible is the version quoted from hundreds of times by William Shakespeare in his plays. Also called the “Breeches Bible”, the Geneva Bible is the only Bible ever able to outsell and exceed the popularity of the King James Bible, as it did in the early 1600’s until its printing ceased in 1644. In fact, one of the greatest ironies of history, is that Protestants of all denominations today embrace the King James Version of the Bible (which reads 90% the same as the Geneva), even though the King James Version is not a Protestant Bible (it’s Anglican / Church of England). Most Protestants have never even heard of the Bible of their own heritage: the Geneva Bible. It was produced by John Calvin, John Knox, Myles Coverdale, John Foxe, & other English refugees in ever-neutral Geneva, Switzerland… fleeing the persecution of Roman Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary in England. Mary would not tolerate the Protestant Geneva Bible, which proclaimed the Pope an “antichrist” in its commentary notes.

Loved this look where we are now

I heard one of the main reasons is that Europe was getting too materialistic.. Just as the world is now, they wanted to spend their time focused on the Risen Christ and God's word in the Bible, They didn't want their children focused on materialism, but on the Risen Savior, Jesus Christ also..

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very good work

This is a good doc - accurate I think. Thank you.

Rumor has it that Sasquatch was the first one 🦾

My Great Great Grandfather was Rodger Williams! He discovered Rhoades Island. He landed in Massachusetts. He Started the Independent Baptist Church! 1629. Wrote 5 books on Christianity. Massachusetts was Catholic. He left and found Rhoades Island.

Interesting video, I wish the Native Americans would of got more screen time I would love to hear more from them what they have to say in regards.

Without the Wampanoag Indians bailing the starving Pilgrims out with turkey's, pumpkin pies and cranberry sauce!!! Their would be no Thanksgiving Day!!!

The birth of the United states

Many countries celebrate Thanksgiving it is the time when all crops are harvested.

I'm in India now. A pilgrim father's descendant.

The temperary home was in the city of Leiden to be precise

Thank you, this was very good!

I have several ancestors that came over on the Mayflower.

Welcome the history of mankind

Great documentary. Shame about the native indian commentators who simply made outragous statements they couldnt back up.

Remember : WE THE PEOPLE ' THE BOATS , AND MORE OVER WHY ? 🕊♥️🕊 🕊🌟💫 AND SO BE IT ...WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 🇺🇸

All countries have good and bad in their histories and narratives shift from who is telling them and why. Yet we are witnessing so many coming from all lands just to step into the United States. Somethings don't get told and we are living it.

Ask yourselves this, what would the new world have been like if the pilgrims didn't land at Plymouth?

"English set sail from their temporary homes in Holland in 1620".... What would have happened to America had they not done this. I enjoyed this video and I don't know how it got in my recommended. It behooves me because I've been thinking about the first settlers in the Americas before the Civil War.... how did Big Brother know what I was thinking🤔 Much respect from katrinka in the San Francisco Bay Area

If I might add, more than half of the puritans virtues where formed in the Netherlands. They lived for 12 years in the first Republic in the world. Where they learned what freedom of speech, religion, practice and ownership means. They had to work hard to get their hands on documents from the Dutch settlements between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers. They found investors, bought a ship and renamed it speedwell. And they left Holland because it was to protestant and liberal for their taste, and they couldn't make a good profit there. They sailed to Britain to free more of their kin. Bought another ship and went the same route as the Dutch went. They got to America and had several contacts with settlers from the Dutch city of New Amsterdam, later New York. After the crops failed and they got in need of help the Dutch went there twice. Offering food and some cows. But this was rejected because of fear of debt or depending on the Dutch towns and their gouverner. So they refused. It's said that they where afraid they couldn't Christan the Dutch but could reform the Indian culture. After all the Indians helped them and soon there was a Dutch, Anglo, Indian war going on. Suprise suprise. To be fair it was the same time as the 2nd or 3rd Anglo Dutch war world wide so.. kinda logical they got dragged in as well. Much later on the English colonies grew and during the 3rd Anglo Dutch war. The British conquers the nee Netherlands region and New Amsterdam became New York. Orange became Albany, fort Nassau, Harlem, Bronx and lots more kept their names. Fun fact.. before transferring all Dutch procession to the British the Dutch govener freed all slaves, not for humanitaire reasons but because they wouldn't be involved with the transfer. All woman with ownership got compensation and the Indian shop and market where 'kindly' asked to leave. Although government and religion in the region was kept Dutch for almost a century. It lost its Dutch cultural bands. Luckily the background and bases of the USA are well founded on Dutch traditions. From the Dutch harvest festival as Thanksgiving or Sinterklaas as Santa Claus. Words like cookie, wagon, boss and many more. Presidents like Roosevelt or van Buren who only spoke Dutch. The fact that the declaration of independence was written up in Dutch and almost a exact copy of the Dutch onafhankelijkheidsverklaring. No... These pelgrims where good is false advertisement and swindle in trade. They where not to be trusted and did not stand on the cradle of America as a country and if they did they stood behind the Dutch!

@8:40 , that’s exactly what happened.

"We compare it to travelling to another planet" - maybe in StarTrek it is like that.

Thomas Rogers is my ancestor

Many people at many times and in many places around the world had practice democracy and espoused equal rights.

I'm a descendant of several Mayflower passengers.

Here because of American Literature

John Wayne welcomed them at Plymouth Rock "Howdy pilgrim".

New world how wen there was people and nations in the Americas

Whelp as long as all parties reach the same conclusion lol

colonizers not settlers

The most cases boy with Bradford have not gotten enough respect from history of the history teaching attended leaving now truly he was a man of faith hey actual beginning of the forefathers shaping this nation by the word of God

I like the lobster for Thanksgiving

Vikings beat them by about 800 years.

The Puritans were unhappy people??? Really? Could it have something to do with being burned at the stake?

Those that died may have had as much mental strength but the body has the last word so dont put them down

On the whole, this docu was okay -- but I did not like the negative sign-off -- it's like they felt they had to get one more kick in on these settlers. And let's not confuse the intent of Pilgrims with those that followed... Pilgirms basically wanted there own chunk of land (and not a ton of it as inferred somewhere in the mix)so that they could pray the way they wanted to pray and not live under British rule. This is not complicated. They were not 'greedy land grabbers' . They eventually got on well with their new neighbors and eventually it was about the symbiosis formed - the dependency whcih was MUTUAL. Sick of Pilgrims being villified in recent times...they were probably the most pure of heart by comparison of any other group.

Here we go let's see what kind lies have been added

The other early colonists, the Protestant extremists known lovingly in American history as Puritans, did not offer Christian kindness to the natives of Massachusetts for long after the mythical “first thanksgiving.” As in many lands before and since, disease scourged the native populations, which the loving Christians considered a “wonderful plague”: in 1634 John Winthrop could write that the Indians “are neere all dead of the small Poxe, so as the Lord hathe cleared our title to what we possess.”28 Unsatisfied with the reduction of the indigenous population, wars against the Pequots in 1637 and the Wampanoags in 1675 and 1676 freed up more land for Christian use.

I am a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.

I just learned there was no sickness, war, murder cannibalism, human sacrifice in the new world prior to 1492… thanks KZfaq!

They probably threw her over board

45:22

It's annoying to the nth that they say some folks see this as a day of mourning..but don't explain why. Ask a Narragansett. Ugh.. And yall wonder why we can't just get over it. 🙄

Great documentary. Except for a half black woman with a chip on her shoulder attempting pass herself off as a Indian. If this company paid her, they should ask for a refund! Same goes for her brother. You know the other Indian.

“Wouldn’t be very palatable to us today” This is exactly how Mormons are in Utah. They view themselves as a city upon a hill and have adopted that same religious confidence and cockiness.

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The pilgrims did pay back the natives with supplies when they were able to. That old native woman in the video is wrong, she laughed when she knew she was lying to promote antiwhite sentiment

The Pilgrims and the Puritans were not the same. Similar, but not interchangeable groups.

Botany on Mayflower But none on Jamestown Weed Hmm .. . .. . Pilgrim Fathers not telling

@24:00 shes complaining about approx $3.15 of dried out corn. and acting like she was fkn robbed last week

Me fascina la discusión en torno a una especie invasora la cual, en oleadas sucesivas, trata de argumentar la idea en torno a que ellos llegaron antes y por tanto el pastel les pertenece. Ordenad vuestras prioridades. Todos sois humanos y vuestras prioridades tienen la misma importancia e interés. "Indígenas o invasores". Cero.

So many negative comments here. You win. I don't even want to see the video now. Next!

..so wait..who found America..John Smith..William Bradford..or Christopher Columbus??

Of course we understood the thanking of a creator. We always have. That was a dumb statement.

History the opinions of the authors

9:10 Yes, and that's why they are still not palatable....

The moment the white men first observed an ear of corn 🌽 😂 I bet it went down just like that too. Now that shit is in everything 🤯

God led the hebrews through all kinds of treachery and gave them a homeland. He did the same for european christians. Gotta problem with that lol take it up with him!

Maybe she jumped overboard??

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8:31 "They believe they serve a higher cause, and want to show England and the world their righteous way." "We are going to be a city upon a hill, they eyes of the world are upon us." They proved they were right. They were the original founding fathers of the United States.

They add in comments from native Americans about lies but they don't explain those lies and if it was so bad for the Indians why did they continue to help the settlers survive.

I’m a descendant❣️👊🏻

Look, they were my personal ancestors, but they were Puritans and Calvanists. Not liberal. The focus on personal predestined salvation made them willing to ignore some conflicts but to impose severe social sanctions on others.

Liberal is supposed to be the key to tolerance, right !?

Sooo americans are immigrants from england

The Indians did love the first Thanksgiving. I know from my Indian heritage. I the 15th cousin of Elizabeth Warren.

I am a direct line ancestor to John Alden of the Mayflower. Please do research on your own to find the truth. Many have been taught wrongly about them.

Mary.and..william.brewster are.kin

Didn't the pilgrims consist mostly of puritans? What I'm saying I heard they left Europe to start a New life with (No Sin) that was the big deal which is what brought us the Salem Witch Trials in the First place(Not Many Died Any ways) but still a big deal. In which this tell us their values in Life. Strict, Moral, and down to Earth People. Not Modern idealists like we wish to think.

Converting, why would they do the same thing that was trying to be done to them to the natives, they were running from being forcefully converted, they know how it feels but yet that's the first thing they try doing to the natives

They didn’t go to find freedom. They went to get away from the religious freedoms being introduced in England.

The Pilgrims weren't Puritans. They were separatists. The people that settled in Boston were Puritans.

#MayflowerLivesMatter #PilgrimsLivesMatter There is an old Indian proverb: When eagle come, serpent go by by

That Indian in the blue shirt is mad. Sorry, Indians but at least you are here to complain. If you believe that it could not have been worse then you're wrong. It could have been better too. I am Irish, French and Cherokee. This land is a melting pot of the whole world. God bless us.

"they wanted equal rights for everyone" except for native americans

No. The Puritans were not relativists!!!

Earth is a Giant graveyard literally. I liken it to purgatory where we purge our sins and decide to follow Jesus on the narrow path.

HAPPY THANKSSLAUGHTERING EVERYONE!!

Cape cod sucks

Then these don't look like the original Indian

Warren, Richard gender male1579-1628 10th great-grandfather Alden, John gender male1598-1687 9th great-grandfather Mullins, William gender male1578-1621 10th great-grandfather Peter Brown 1562- BIRTH 1562 • , England DEATH Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States 9th great-grandfather

This kinda sucked. It wasn’t a battle with the indigenous peoples. It was a massacre. They also didn’t have pumpkins. Sugar coated history is just mythical tales.

8/17/22 - I am also a descendant, a member of the Mayflower Society. I am deeply saddened and shocked at the treatment of people back in those cruel times. The torture tools of Europe unimaginable considering they were civilized and religious. All lovers of humanity know the truth: the narcissists and psychopaths conquered us and mother earth - we have been systematically and strategically raped by a few animals - fear and inhumane control has been utilized with some tourniquet fashioned relief for their sadistic pleasure. What is the end game of this movement?

Funny how these Englishmen lost their accents.