# Question on the Mayflower voyage **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 9, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-the-mayflower-voyage/925123 "2020-11-09T05:29:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Octagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/2acd7d/32.png) [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-the-mayflower-voyage/925123/1 "2020-11-09T05:29:21Z")
In Protestants: The Radicals who Made the Modern World" byAlec Ryrie on page 132 (paperback edition) “The Mayflower sailed from England in 1620 bearing 102 settlers; two more were born en route, but one of the newborns and three others died on the voyage…Within a year, 49 of the hundred (100) who had landed in early November 1620 were dead…” So according to Ryrie 100 of the original 102 landed at Plymouth. Nowhere online have I been able to verify that number of survivors of the voyage. The 100 doesn’t include the 40 (?) crew members. Has anyone else come across the final number of survivors as being 100 who landed at Plymouth? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-the-mayflower-voyage/925123/2 "2020-11-09T13:56:59Z")
102 + 2 - 1 - 3 = 100. And the names of all of them, including the ones who died, are a matter of historical record. Where’s the uncertainty? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-the-mayflower-voyage/925123/3 "2020-11-09T14:07:55Z")
And here they are: > **[List of Mayflower passengers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mayflower_passengers)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > This is a list of the passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Of the passengers, 37 were members of a separatist Puritan congregation in Leiden, The Netherlands (also known as Brownists), who were seeking to establish a colony in the New World where they could preserve their English identities but practice... ---
**Author:** ![Octagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/2acd7d/32.png) [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-the-mayflower-voyage/925123/4 "2020-11-09T14:25:30Z")
What prompted my question was that I haven’t come across any source other than Ryrie’s book is that states 100 passenger survived the voyage and landed at Plymouth. All sources I’ve seen simple state that 102 passengers sailed on the Mayflower.