The Mayflower Seafood Restaurant Story

 Mayflower Seafood was established in 1980 with one goal in mind; to make the customer feel as if they are part of the Mayflower family.

 The Mayflower Restaurant chain is family-owned and operated. Therefore, the family wanted to share this type of relationship with you. A family-oriented business, the Mayflower is no longer just a business with customers, but an environment of friends that has progressed with you in mind. 

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  We’ve watched you grow and change throughout the years. We’ve been with you through births, weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays. We’ve watched your children grow with delight and mourned for those who have passed on. You’ve shared your lives with us, now we would like to share ours with you. The portrayal of our growth will also be one of your own. 

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  Join us as the years pass on and watch our family, just as we will watch your families grow and change in years to come! 

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The Mayflower Story

Over 360 years ago, in England, there lived some people call "Pilgrims", who were not happy with the laws of the king or the Church of England.

The Pilgrims decided to leave England, and for a time, settled in Holland.  At that time an English explorer, Captain John Smith, and other explorers and traders where charting new lands.  Stories of the exploration had reach the Pilgrims in Holland.  Hearing this, the Pilgrims decided to return to England to make plans to settle in the new world across the ocean.

There they might really be free!

Having obtained a ship called the Mayflower" and ample provisions for a long journey, they (102 passengers and about thirty sailors) set sail from Plymouth Harbor, England, in the autumn of 1620, and headed westward toward the new world.  The Pilgrims had plenty of courage.

For 65 days and nights, over a vast and furious ocean, the Pilgrims journeyed in the season of westerly gales.  The Mayflower was driven off course by heavy storms while heading for a settlement in Virginia and sought shelter in Cape Cod Bay at Provincetown (Massachusetts).

Few moments of greater drama exist in American history than that morning in November, 1620, when the Mayflower still lay at anchor in Provincetown Harbor.  In the great cabin of the Mayflower, the Pilgrims drew up an agreement. 

It was called the Mayflower Compact.   Forty-one (41) men signed the agreement.

The pattern for democratic government in the new world was set.