1868 — Chicago Congregational Church Stone, Chicago, IL
A gravestone dated 1595 was sent from the Delfshaven, Holland, Olde Kirke to be placed in the wall of this new church.

1881 — Scrooby Font, Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Chicago, IL
In 1881, Mr. William H. Bradley, who was a member of the New England Congregational Church in Chicago, was traveling to England. On that visit he met Lady Lowther who had knowledge of the Scrooby’s St. Wilfrid’s Church. It appears that some years earlier this church had been renovated and that while the base of the font now supported a newly designed bowl, the font itself was now unused and stored away. It struck Mr. Bradley that if he could acquire this historic font for the New England Church, it would serve as a fitting memorial to his daughter, Mary, and her two infant sons, all of whom had died recently before his trip to England. Lady Lowther made arrangements with Lord Houghton, the proprietor of the Scrooby estates, and with the Warden of the Scrooby Church. On March 1, 1882, Mr. Bradley formally presented the Scrooby font to the New England Church. On July 14, 1936, the building of the New England Congregational Church burned. The Scrooby font was saved from the fire and the Wellington Avenue Congregational Church was asked to be its custodian in order that "it may be conserved and used to the glory of God." The font was formally given to Wellington Church on February 25, 1942.
A plaque on the font reads: “BAPTISMAL*FONT / OF*THE*FOURTEENTH / CENTURY*FROM*THE / CHURCH*AT*SCROOBY*ENGLAND /  NEAR*THE*MANOR*HOUSE*WHERE*THE / FIRST*CHURCH*OF*THE*PILGRIMS*WAS / FORMED*GIVEN*AUGUST*24*1881*BY*LADY / ISABELLA*L*H*LOWTHER*OF*WILTON*CASTLE / YORKSHIRE*TO*WILLIAM*H*BRADLEY*TO*BE / PLACED*IN*THE*NEW*ENGLAND*CHURCH*IN / MEMORY*OF*HIS*BELOVED*DAUGHTER / MARY*C*GRAY*WIFE*OF*WILLIAM / HARRISON*BRADLEY*AND* OF /WILLIAM*HENRY*AND*BRYSON*DELAVAN / THEIR*INFANT*SONS

1953 — Leiden Pilgrim Settlement Stone, Chicago Tribune Square,  Chicago, IL
The citizens of Leiden sent a stone from the house occupied by Pastor John Robinson in 1609 in Leiden to the Chicago Tribune to be embedded in the walls of Tribune Square as part of a collection of famous stones. A similar stone was presented to the General Society in 1954. It arrived aboard the BOAC airliner Mayflower.

Unknown — Epcot, Orlando, FL
The American Adventure Pavilion has an audio-animatronics display of figures from American history. An unidentified Pilgrim is included.

1825 — "Landing of the Pilgrims, 1620" Relief, U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Washington DC
This is one of four reliefs which stand over the four Rotunda doors of the US Capitol Building. It was contributed by the sculptor Enrico Causici. This is not to be confused with the section of the same title in the Rotunda's 360º Historical Painting frieze painted in 1889 by Filippo Costaggini based on sketches by Costantino Brumidi.

On leaving Leiden in 1620, the Pilgrims went to the port of Delfshaven where they boarded the ship Speedwell for England where they were to join the larger ship Mayflower for the trip to the New World.

1906 — The Pilgrim Fathers’ Church (Oude Kerk) Memorial Plaque, Delfshaven, Holland
Memorial plaque reads: ONE IN CHRIST / FROM DELFSHAVEN JULY 22 AD 1620 / THE PILGRIM FATHERS BEGAN THEIR VOYAGE TO NEW ENGLAND / ---- / OBLIGED BY THE GOOD AND COURTEOUS ENTREATY / WHICH WE HAVE FOUND IN YOUR COUNTRY / WE AND OUR CHILDREN ARE BOUND TO BE THANKFUL / GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORD TO THE DUTCH ON MANHATTAN MARCH 19 1627 / IN TOKEN OF ENDURING AND IN CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD / THE BOSTON CONGREGATIONAL CLUB REAR THIS MEMORIAL / JULY 1906” The Boston Congregational Church was part of the Highland Congregational Church (founded in 1869) located then on Parker Street, Boston, MA.

ca. 1920 — The Pilgrim Fathers' (Oude Kerk) Memorial Window, Delfshaven, Holland
Memorial window depicting the sailing of the Speedwell.

1995 — The Pilgrim Fathers’ Church (Oude Kerk), Delfshaven, Holland
"The / Tide / Which / Stays For / No Man Was / Calling Them / Away" on a bronze roundel with two Pilgrim figures, a man and a woman. The man holds a book identified as a Bible; Delfshaven church is in the background. The sculpture is signed with a small heraldic seal at the lower right. Translation of the plaque presented during the Pilgrims’ 375 anniversary year of departure reads: "This bronze relief sculpture is dedicated to the Pilgrims, who embarked in Delfshaven in July, 1620, for their journey to the New World, where after much difficulty they landed at Cape Cod in November of the same year. Presented by AEGON Insurance Company." AEGON N. V. is one of the world’s largest insurance companies and has its headquarters in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Unknown — Selleck Monument Stone, Abbeville SC
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The following paper is by the 2009 recipient of the Katharine Fox Little Distinguished Mayflower Scholarship Award. Jane Fiske was honored at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the SMDPA in Essington, PA for her “Discovering, Recording, Compiling, Preserving, Publishing, And Facilitating the Same by Others, of Genealogy and History of the Pilgrims.” Her paper was not presented verbatim, although all issues were covered. It is posted here for those who could not attend the meeting.

Some symbols – even when they exist as partial remains of an old church in the Dutch city of Leiden – may be considered by some as having no special value and just as it appears – an old ruin. To others it is a heritage, a place where ancestors walked, worshipped, shaped our lives and our ideals. This symbol is the Vrouwekerk!

That New England's Calvinist Puritans created theocratic governments is a stereotype that owes much to the nineteenth-century myth that Calvin established theocratic government in Geneva. In his Institutes, Calvin distinguishes between the jurisdiction of civil and ecclesiastical governments, stating that the magistrate in a Christian society has general authority over the entire society, including the obligation to protect and enforce religion and morality. Clergy have authority within the congregation only, including excommunication. While laws should conform with biblical precept, Calvin believes that many Old Testament regulations were abrogated by the New Testament.

1. Introduction
Pilgrim families arrived in Holland in the spring of 1608 and in Plymouth in December 1620. In May 1607, 105 men arrived in Jamestown to establish the first permanent English settlement in North America. While the individuals in both settlements were English, the they were different in many important ways. To fully appreciate our Pilgrim heritage, it is important to understand the differences between Plymouth and Jamestown. This essay identifies major differences and explains how these differences affected the settlements during the first few decades of their arrival.

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"A Thanksgiving for plenty. O Most merciful Father, which of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy church, and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapnesse and plenty: we giue thee humble thankes for this thy special bounty, beseeching thee to continue this thy louing kindnes unto vs, that our land may yeild vs her fruits of increase, to thy glory and our comfort, through Iesus Christ our Lord, Amen"

Our Mayflower ancestors were not of “royal blood.” For the most part, they were what we now would call “middle class” people who had to work for a living. Of the 58 male passengers, both men and boys, the trades or occupations of only 32 are known. This is one more than what was known in January 1999 because the Pilgrim John Howland Society has discovered an Indenture dated 1623 that reveals John Howland’s trade: salter. The women and girls are not included because about two hundred years would pass before females would be allowed to be any more than what we now call “Housewives.”

The Algonquin Nation inhabited New England and the mid-Atlantic states. The Wampanoag federation at its peak contained 20,000 to 30,000 individuals in two dozen tribes who occupied southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island. The Wampanoag was ruled by a Sachem, Massasoit, and a council of young men who had proven themselves in battle and older men chosen for their wisdom. Europeans explored, and in some cases planted settlements along the coast of New England since at least 1498.