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Black plaque № 11977

Pilgrims Point - The Mayflower steps. The Mayflower made its first landfall at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts on the 11th November 1520 after 66 days at sea. There the Mayflower compact, the first democratic document written in America, was composed and signed. "And upon the 11th of November we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good Harbor and a pleasant bay, a harbor where in a thousand sail of ships may safely ride" From Mourts Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Presented May 19 2000 by the Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum and the town of Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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