Third: A very old man said it was the rock the Pilgrims landed on. In 1741, 94-year-old church elder Thomas Faunce, heard that the large boulder near the shore was going to be buried to make room ...

The National Museum of American History site refers to the story of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock as “oral tradition,” and said no contemporary accounts of the landing mention a rock ...

The National Museum of American History site refers to the story of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock as "oral tradition," and said no contemporary accounts of the landing mention a rock ...

The first documented claim that Plymouth Rock was the landing place of the Pilgrims was made by Elder Thomas Faunce in 1741 — 121 years after the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth. For the Wampanoag tribe, ...

And of the two first-hand accounts of the Plymouth landing, neither mention the famed rock. “There are no contemporary references to the Pilgrims' landing on a rock at Plymouth.

The story of Plymouth Rock as the legend tells it did not appear in until 1741, well over a century after the arrival of the Pilgrims. In that year, 95-year-old Thomas Faunce asked to be taken to ...

'Landing of the Pilgrims,' a 19th century illustration of the landing at Plymouth Rock. From "Our Country: a Household History for All Readers, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time ...

First: Plymouth, with or without the rock, was not the first place the Pilgrims landed. Historians have placed that spot ...

Landing at Plymouth Rock (Library of Congress) Landing of the Pilgrims, by Currier and Ives. They got the date wrong. (Library of Congress) The Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that carried the ...

For comparison, 102 Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, ... including the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence and even the 1620 landing at Plymouth Rock.

As the Pilgrims sailed into an uncertain future in 1620, their reliance on this beverage was born from necessity. Their long voyage, lasting just over two months, left them without safe drinking ...

If you had to pick the five most important rocks in the world, in no particular order, the list might look something like this: the Rosetta Stone, which helped archaeologists decipher hieroglyphs ...