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On the 6th of September 1620, the Mayorality of Thomas Townes after being kindly entertained and courteously used by divers Friends there dwelling, the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth in the Mayflower in the Providence of God to settle in New Plymouth and to lay the foundations of the New England States The ancient Cawsey whence they embarked was destroyed not many Years afterwards but the Site of their Embarkation is marked by the Stone bearing the name of the MAYFLOWER in the pavement of the adjacent Pier.
This Tablet was erected in the Mayoralty of J T Bond 1891, to commemorate the Departure, and the visit to Plymouth in July of that Year of a number of their Descendants and Representatives

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The Mayflower made its first landfall at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts on the 11th November after 66 days at sea.
There the Mayflower Compact, the first democratic document written in America, was composed and signed.

"And on the 11th November we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good harbour and a pleasant bay.... a harbour wherein a thousand sail of ships may safely ride."
from Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth

Presented May 19, 2000 by the Pilgrim Minument and Provincetown Museum and the town of Provincetown, Massachusetts

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The Honourable Walter Annenberg United States Ambassador to the court of St. James's Unveiled this tablet on the 6th September 1970. This day being the 350th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower
Counciller Eric D. Nutall. J.P. Lord Mayor

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This tablet was erected by the Plymouth Borough Council to commerorate the arrival on the 1st day of May 1919 of the American seaplane N.C.4 in Plymouth Sound on the completion of the first Transatlantic Flight and the reception by the Mayor of Plymouth of the Commander, Pilots and Crew on their landing at the Barbican

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City of Plymouth
This tablet commemorates the departure from Plymouth in May 1839 of the "Tory", the pioneer ship in the colonisation of New Zealand

October 1939 George S. Stobie, Lord Mayor

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From near this spot thousands of Cornish people sailed for South Australia during the nineteenth century.

Their contribution to the colony's development, particularly in mining and farming, is acknowledged with pride by the Cornish Association of South Australia

Unveiled 5th Spetember 1986

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From Plymouth On 13th March 1787, sailed the transport ships 'Friendship' and 'Charlotte' carrying men and women convicts bound for Australia.

On 28th January 1788, with nine other ships from England they landed at Port Jackson, which became Sydney, New South Wales.

There they established the first British Colony under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, R.N. the father of modern Australia.

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Plymouth Men Who Helped To Found Modern Australia
Captain Tobias Furneaux charted the coast of Tasmania, and in 1773 became the first Englishman to land there.

Captain John MacArthur gave Australia prosperity through his introduction of marino sheep in the 1790s.

Captain William Bligh survived the mutiny aboard the Bounty to become governer of New South Wales 1806-1809.

Colonel George Arthur was Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania 1823-1836.

Major Edmond Lockyer raised the British flag in Western Australia in 1827.

Both Furneaux and Bligh accompanied Catain James Cook on the second of his three great voyages of discovery, all of which left from Plymouth, in 1768, 1772, and 1776.

Unveiled by His Excellency Mr. Richard Smith, The Australian High Commissioner 8th September 1992.

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This plaque commemorates the sailing of the six Plymouth Company vessels carrying settlers from Cornwall, Devon, and Dorset to establish the settlement of New Plymouth in the colony of New Zealand.