TEXT:By April 1621, their settlement is taking shape. The Mayflower returns to England.The Pilgrims are on their own in an unknown land. A great hope and inward zeal we had of laying some great foundation for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ, in those remote parts of the world. They're 19 families. Goats, chickens, pigs and dogs. They have spinning wheels, chairs, books, guns. And no way home. If you create this environment as a land of opportunity, then you're go nna attract those type of people who wanna take that risk, who
have wanna take that gamble and who believe in a better life.
They were heading for the Hudson River, but they've landed 200 miles further north at the beginning of winter. They have arrived in the middle of a mini ice age, temperatures 2 degrees
colder than today. Winters are longer, growing seasons shorter. The soil is poor. Little grows. Food supplies run low. In the first three months, more than half the Pilgrims die. William Bradford is the governor of a community soon in desperate trouble. It pleased God to visit us with death daily. Disease was everywhere. The living were scarcely able to bury the dead. They died sometimes two or three a day. Of 100 and odd persons, scarce 50 remained. A t times, only six are fit enough to continue building their shelters. Susanna White's husband dies that first winter. Edward Winslow's wife perishes a month after. Within weeks, White and Winslow marry. They'll have five children. Today more than 10% of all Americans can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower.

译文：1621年4月，他们的殖民地逐渐成型，"五月花号"返航英国。他们只能在这片陌生的土地上自力更生了。我们充满希望与热情地在这块遥远的土地上，为子孙后代的繁衍生息和天国福音的传播奠定坚实的基础。十九个家庭饲养着山羊、鸡、猪、狗，他们还有手纺车、椅子、书籍和枪支，而且没有回头路。

迈克尔·道格拉斯[著名演员]：只要把这个地方描绘成机遇之地，就能吸引到那些愿意冒险，愿意赌一回的人，和那些坚信生活会更好的人。他们的目的地原本是哈德逊河口，然而靠岸地点却向北偏了200英里，时间正是初冬。当时正值一个小型冰期，气温普遍比现在低2度。冬天更长，适合作物生长的时间更短。土地贫瘠，颗粒无收，食物严重短缺。在前三个月中，超过一半的清教徒死于饥荒。

威廉·布莱福特是一位社区总督，他所辖的社区很快陷入了困境。上帝似乎喜欢每天以死亡问候我们，疾病蔓延，活着的人几乎没有力气埋葬死人。有时一天就有两三个人去世，在这一百多人中，只有不到五十人幸存下来，有时只有六个人能有足够的力气继续盖房子。苏珊娜·怀特的丈夫死于第一年冬天，爱德华·温斯洛的妻子也在一个月后去世。几个星期后，怀特和温斯洛结婚了，他们后来有了五个孩子。在今天，超过10%的美国人家谱可以追溯到"五月花号"上。