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Fair Weather, a Prosperous Wind, But it Didn’t Stay That Way for America’s Pilgrim Fathers

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Fair Weather, a Prosperous Wind, But it Didn’t Stay That Way for America’s Pilgrim Fathers
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… trade off the coasts of western Europe.  
Only one passenger, Stephen Hopkins … . 
Motivated by religion 
Around half of the passengers were English Protestant Separatists … sympathetic to the Saints’ religious goals, but most were not …