They were hardly the first.
The Pilgrims landed and fortunately found Squanto
of the Wampanoags, who had already
traveled across the Atlantic TWICE to their once,
and who taught them to plant corn with fish,
and other technologies,
... without which they would have died.
“”Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country’s flag,” she said.
A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,
Over the face of the leader came;
The nobler nature within him stirred
To life at that woman’s deed and word;
“Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.....”
They certainly picked a horrible time of year to make a trans-Atlantic crossing, and arrival time to coincide with the first day of a New England winter.
I’ll raise one to my 9th GGF, Stephen Hopkins. A personal friend of Squanto and negotiator with the Wampanoags.
It was his second trip to the new world having made the trip to Jamestown along with the original founders.
He definitely had a taste for adventure as well as mischief.
And they came to “advance the Christian Faith.” —How sad that Mass. seems first to betray that faith when it elected to change the law to accommodate the Reprobate setting in motion this present darkness with respect to “marriage”