102 passengers and 30 sailors are on the official manifest list of the 100 foot Mayflower ship transporting the Pilgrims from Plymouth England to America but there was another unlisted passenger, number 103, that was also on board and very much real. The passenger’s name: Death.
Death was a constant companion to those on board the Mayflower. Death took 45 away the first year of their arrival from November 1620 to November 1621. 3 by December 1620 and another 42 by April 1621. It took a full year for another ship to come to the colony (November 1621) dropping off an additional 35 more people to the colony.
I’ve often gone outside and looked at the rolling tree covered hills before me thinking:
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