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This Day in Boston History
November 21st, 1620

Mayflower Arrives in Provincetown

On the morning of November 21, 1620, the ship Mayflower sailed into Provincetown harbor and came to anchor. In the words of the leader of the Pilgrims William Bradford: 'we espied land, which we deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved.' How did they know it was Cape Cod? They, of course, had a map.

Captain John Smith (of Pocahontas fame) spent six months in 1614 exploring and mapping the New England coast. He named various areas, including Plymouth where the Pilgrims eventually settled, just in time for their first New England winter.


		England's Prime Minister never expected this tea tax to cause an outcry, let alone revolution. In 1767, England reduced its property taxes at home. To balance the national budget they needed to find a mechanism for the American colonies to pay for the expense of stationing officials in them. The officials would generate their own revenue by collecting taxes on all imported goods, and once paid affixing stamps on them. This Stamp Tax generated more in the way of protests and smuggling than added revenue.		Religion. Politics. Rebellion. Boston’s pedigree was forged back in England in the midst of religious dissension, where Puritans and Pilgrims sought religious reform, and Cavaliers and Roundheads vied for political power. The question isn't where did Boston get its name – but how.

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