Before They Left the Ship #RTTBROS #Nightlight #America250 #Nation250
Before They Left the Ship #RTTBROS #Nightlight
"O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever."
— Psalm 107:1
THE STORY
November 11, 1620. The Mayflower sat anchored in the cold waters off Cape Cod, and nothing was going according to plan.
The Pilgrims had intended to settle in Virginia, under the jurisdiction of an existing charter. But storms and navigational error had brought them far north of their destination, into territory where no legal framework existed to govern them. Some among the passengers, the strangers as the Pilgrims called those who were not…
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