Born on the Mayflower as it lay at anchor at Provincetown Harbor, while the Pilgrims looked for a good landing site: "Whilst some were employed in this discovery [of a good harbor], it pleased God that Mistress White was brought abed of a son, which was called Peregrine" (Mourt’s Relations)

In 1655 he was granted land as the “first of the English that was born in these ptes.”137

See Peregrine’s cradle at the Pilgrim Hall Museum