Brewer's: “Mayflower”

(The). A ship of 180 tons, which, in December, 1620, started from Plymouth, and conveyed to Massachusetts, in North America, 102 Puritans, called the “Pilgrim Fathers.” They called their settlement New Plymouth.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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