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Emails from Lizzy Turner and Pometacomet
Autumn 1620

Lizzy Turner

Pometacomet

Winter 1621

Lizzy Turner

Pometacomet

Harvest 1621

Lizzy Turner

Pometacomet

 



Did you receive the letters from Lizzy Turner on the Mayflower and Pometacomet of the Wampanoag nation?* Relive history and read them now.

The letters—one from the ship, the second from the Plimoth Colony, and a third about the Thanksgiving feast—were emailed on November 2, 9, and 16.

 

*Lizzy Turner is actually a fictional character based on information we have about the passengers as a whole. The letters represent what a girl Lizzy’s age might have written to family back in England or Holland.

 


 
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