Our ferry will be leaving from Plymouth aboard Captain John Boats ferry to Provincetown. Round-trip ferry tickets are $45 per person and can be purchased through Brian by completing the registration form and clicking the FERRY button to pay.

Admission to the Pilgrim Monument is $18.85 after our discount and can be purchased directly from the monument AFTER 6/27/23 by clicking the MONUMENT button. Enter PLIMOTH2PTOWN at checkout for our group discount.

Shortly after Christopher Columbus voyaged to the New World in 1492, a steady stream of European explorers, fishermen and adventurers began regular visits to the coast of New England. Located on Cape Cod, the Nauset had contact with Europeans at an early date, but these first meetings were not always friendly.

French explorer and navigator Samuel Champlain visited the Nauset and Monomoy bands during his two visits to Cape Cod in the early 1600s. In 1614, Captain Thomas Hunt carried off seven Nauset natives and sold them into slavery in Spain along with 20 Indians of the Patuxent tribe. The Spaniards also introduced diseases that reduced the Nauset population even before the colonization of New England began on a large scale.

The Pilgrims‘ first contact with the Nauset was during the Mayflower’s landing near present-day Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1620. They discovered a deserted village when the tribe was away at their winter hunting grounds. Desperately low on supplies, the Pilgrims helped themselves to maize, though they left a note promising to pay for what they had stolen. The promise was eventually kept when the Nauset, led by Chief Aspinet, returned months later. The Nauset also returned a small boy who had wandered away from the colony and become lost, an act which significantly improved relations with nearby colonists. A warm friendship developed between the Pilgrims and Nauset, and during the winter of 1622, Aspinet is believed to have brought food to Plymouth, which saved many from starvation.

The Nauset were never numerous. The original population was probably around 1,500 in 1600 before the epidemics. Their estimated population in 1621 was 500, but this is probably below their real strength at that time, as they seem to have numbered as many as 800 afterward.

In subsequent years, the Nauset became the colonists’ closest allies. Most became Christianized and aided the colonists as scouts and warriors against the Wampanoag during King Philip’s War. Their numbers, always small, were further reduced. After the war, they intermarried with neighboring tribes and settlers.

Provincetown, MA

10:00 AM Depart Plymouth - State Pier

11:30 AM Arrive Provincetown - McMillian Warf

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Pilgrim Monument
2 Chronicles 7:14 – Humility and Repentance

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Pilgrims First Landing Park
Nehemiah 4:17 – Begin the Rebuilding Process

4:30 PM Depart Provincetown - McMillian Warf

6:00 PM Arrive Plymouth - State Pier