by Dean Bowen, America Outloud:
There’s more to the Pilgrim’s story than the flight across the Atlantic on the Mayflower. There’s an amazing backstory that began two decades earlier at the death of two well-known Puritan leaders.
1593, while Elizabeth was still sitting on the throne as Queen of England, Puritan leaders Henry Barrowe and John Greenwood were convicted of violating the Act of Uniformity.
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Because of the Act of Uniformity, which outlawed attending any church service other than an Anglican service, Separatist groups were forced to meet at night under the cover of darkness by candlelight, usually in barns or basements.
Upon their conviction, the two leaders were promptly executed.
The Pilgrims were part of the separatist movement. Since the church and government leaders would hunt them down, the Pilgrims made an attempt to flee England, which in itself was illegal.
Many years after the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, their governor, William Bradford, wrote about their attempted escapes.
In their first attempt, they hired an English captain to take them to Holland. The captain loaded the men, women, and children with all of their belongings onto his boat but had secretly made a deal with church leaders to hand the group over at the last minute. This he did, and several of them spent weeks in jail because of it.
On their second attempt to flee England, they hired a Dutch captain. William Bradford stated: “They made an agreement with him and acquainted him with their condition, hoping to find more faithfulness in him, then in the former of their own nation.”
The Dutch captain agreed to meet them at a secret location by the seaside which was far away from any villages. When the captain arrived, he began to ferry the men out to the ship to load their belongings.
As the women and children waited on shore, the captain spotted a group of armed men on horses and foot coming towards them. He cut anchor and set sail for Holland with only the men on board, leaving the women and children to be captured.
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