There were 102 Pilgrims (passengers) on the Mayflower during its 1620 voyage to New England, plus roughly 30 crew members on top of that.

Quick Scoop

  • The Mayflower sailed in 1620 with 102 passengers seeking religious freedom and new opportunities in the New World.
  • About half of these passengers died during the first brutal winter of 1620–1621, leaving only around 50 survivors by the time of the first Thanksgiving.
  • Modern estimates suggest that tens of millions of people today trace ancestry back to those surviving Mayflower Pilgrims.

The Mayflower wasn’t a giant cruise ship; it was a cramped cargo vessel suddenly packed with over a hundred hopeful colonists and a small crew, crossing the Atlantic into an unknown winter.

TL;DR: 102 Pilgrims were on the Mayflower when it sailed to America in 1620.

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