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Thatâs what the Pilgrims did in the year 1620, on a ship called Mayflower. Mayflower set sail from England in July 1620, but it had to turn back twice because Speedwell, the ship it was traveling with, leaked. After deciding to leave the leaky Speedwell behind, Mayflower finally got underway on September 6, 1620.
The Pilgrims were a group of English Calvinist religious dissenters who fled persecution under Queen Elizabeth I and her successor King James I. Many of the group emigrated to America on the Mayflower (1620), the Fortune (1621), the Anne and the Little James (1623), and the second Mayflower (1629).