An interesting account of the decisions that had to be made about whether or not to bring women along on the Mayflower. There was a higher mortality rate among the women it turned out, but that may have been due to the fact that women stayed most of the time on the ship where the air was unhealthy while the men explored the new world and began to build the colony.

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plymouth colony

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health of colonists, mortality of colonists, mayflowerhistory.com: women of early plymouth, life in plymouth colony, women's health in plymouth

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• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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