TEXT:By April 1621, their settlement is taking shape. The Mayflower returns to England.The Pilgrims are on their own in an unknown land. A great hope and inward zeal we had of laying some great foundation for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ, in those remote parts of the world. They're 19 families. Goats, chickens, pigs and dogs. They have spinning wheels, chairs, books, guns. And no way home. If you create this environment as a land of opportunity, then you're go nna attract those type of people who wanna take that risk, who
have wanna take that gamble and who believe in a better life.
They were heading for the Hudson River, but they've landed 200 miles further north at the beginning of winter. They have arrived in the middle of a mini ice age, temperatures 2 degrees
colder than today. Winters are longer, growing seasons shorter. The soil is poor. Little grows. Food supplies run low. In the first three months, more than half the Pilgrims die. William Bradford is the governor of a community soon in desperate trouble. It pleased God to visit us with death daily. Disease was everywhere. The living were scarcely able to bury the dead. They died sometimes two or three a day. Of 100 and odd persons, scarce 50 remained. A t times, only six are fit enough to continue building their shelters. Susanna White's husband dies that first winter. Edward Winslow's wife perishes a month after. Within weeks, White and Winslow marry. They'll have five children. Today more than 10% of all Americans can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower.

譯文：1621年4月，他們的殖民地逐漸成型，"五月花號"返航英國。他們只能在這片陌生的土地上自力更生了。我們充滿希望與熱情地在這塊遙遠的土地上，為子孫后代的繁衍生息和天國福音的傳播奠定堅實的基礎。十九個家庭飼養著山羊、雞、豬、狗，他們還有手紡車、椅子、書籍和槍支，而且沒有回頭路。

邁克爾·道格拉斯[著名演員]：只要把這個地方描繪成機遇之地，就能吸引到那些愿意冒險，愿意賭一回的人，和那些堅信生活會更好的人。他們的目的地原本是哈德遜河口，然而靠岸地點卻向北偏了200英里，時間正是初冬。當時正值一個小型冰期，氣溫普遍比現在低2度。冬天更長，適合作物生長的時間更短。土地貧瘠，顆粒無收，食物嚴重短缺。在前三個月中，超過一半的清教徒死于饑荒。

威廉·布萊福特是一位社區總督，他所轄的社區很快陷入了困境。上帝似乎喜歡每天以死亡問候我們，疾病蔓延，活著的人幾乎沒有力氣埋葬死人。有時一天就有兩三個人去世，在這一百多人中，只有不到五十人幸存下來，有時只有六個人能有足夠的力氣繼續蓋房子。蘇珊娜·懷特的丈夫死于第一年冬天，愛德華·溫斯洛的妻子也在一個月后去世。幾個星期后，懷特和溫斯洛結婚了，他們后來有了五個孩子。在今天，超過10%的美國人家譜可以追溯到"五月花號"上。