Over the years the U.S. Postal Office/Service has twice issued stamps commemorating the landing of the Pilgrims. The first issue was on December 21, 1920 for the Tercentennial. It consisted of three horizontal stamps: a one cent green stamp with the inscription 'THE MAYFLOWER,' a two cent red stamp with the inscription "LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS," and a five cent blue stamp inscribed "SIGNING OF THE COMPACT." The top of each stamp reads "PILGRIM TERCENTENARY" while at the bottom are the dates "1620" and "1920."

The following is a chronological list of Pilgrim Memorials using the aforesaid and other sources. Stamps and currency are not included but may be seen on the related pages listed in the navigation column located on the left. Paintings may be seen on our Pilgrims In Art page. The sponsor or contributor is indicated in text when known. If the information is all or in part from the General Society's Centennial History (CH), the page number will follow the entry. PAM, MQ and HQ indicate that some of the information comes from the Pennsylvania Mayflower, the Mayflower Quarterly or the Howland Quarterly and the issue, and often the page, is given. This is a "work in progress." If sites are missing, it is not intentional and readers knowing of those that should be added are urged to provide information about them to the Webmaster so that they may be included.

Very little is known about the ship which brought the Pilgrims to New England. No name is given in Bradford's History Of Plimoth Plantation, nor in the other early accounts. The first mention occurred in a document of 1623, which assigned to the individual colonists an acre of land apiece. The list of people was subdivided by ship name, and the first group came under the heading, "The Falles of their grounds which over in May-Floure, according as their lotes were cast .1623." Bradford in his History stated only that she "...was hired at London, of urthen about nine scoure,..." A later passage concerning John Howland's fall from the Mayflower and subsequent rescue refers to his catching hold of a topsail halyard, thus indicating that topsails were present.

New publications still have some errors in fact.

"A Thanksgiving for plenty. O Most merciful Father, which of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy church, and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapnesse and plenty: we giue thee humble thankes for this thy special bounty, beseeching thee to continue this thy louing kindnes unto vs, that our land may yeild vs her fruits of increase, to thy glory and our comfort, through Iesus Christ our Lord, Amen"

Some symbols – even when they exist as partial remains of an old church in the Dutch city of Leiden – may be considered by some as having no special value and just as it appears – an old ruin. To others it is a heritage, a place where ancestors walked, worshipped, shaped our lives and our ideals. This symbol is the Vrouwekerk!

Our Mayflower ancestors were not of “royal blood.” For the most part, they were what we now would call “middle class” people who had to work for a living. Of the 58 male passengers, both men and boys, the trades or occupations of only 32 are known. This is one more than what was known in January 1999 because the Pilgrim John Howland Society has discovered an Indenture dated 1623 that reveals John Howland’s trade: salter. The women and girls are not included because about two hundred years would pass before females would be allowed to be any more than what we now call “Housewives.”

(For a guide book of Plymouth, see James Baker’s 2008 A Guide to Historic Plymouth.)

Town Center/Harbor

Water Street runs along the harbor from Sandwich Street north to Nelson Park.

There were one hundred and two passengers (plus the crew) on the Mayflower. Only forty-one males who were free agents, including Christopher Martin, the agent and treasurer of the London merchants, signed the Compact on November 11 (=21), 1620, in Provincetown Harbor. The intent of the Compact was to assure that all would band together and submit to majority rule.

For over 150 years the Mayflower Pilgrims have been numismatically celebrated. Presented here are a few examples of this honor.