Captain Myles Standish: Separatist Pilgrim, or Roman Catholic Soldier of Fortune?

The Mayflower set sail from England in 1620 with 102 passengers1 (fifty men, twenty women, twenty-two boys, and ten girls).2 This number includes three crew members who were hired to remain permanently in Plymouth and two crew members hired to remain for one year. Not included in the number are Oceanus Hopkins (a boy born at sea) and Peregrine White (a boy born on the ship while it was anchored off Provincetown, Cape Cod)—making the actual number of “passengers” to be 104.