Tag: Thanksgiving

Sack full of siler coins

On September 6th of 1620, to flee religious persecution and maintain their English cultural identity, a group of separatists dubbed, the Pilgrims, boarded the Mayflower to sail across the Atlantic to establish a free colony in the New World. And just as one needs capital in the modern day to build a home or buy a new car, the Pilgrims needed money to finance their voyage to the Americas – an oft omitted fact in grade school textbooks.