From cover: A gift of England, Mayflower II becomes a national treasure; her home port the Plimoth Plantation restoration two miles south of Plymoth, Mass. Artist Jon Neilsen visited the ship to make sketches for this book. On board he met one of two boys who sailed on Mayflower II, young Britisher Graham Nunn of Sherwood Forest. His shipmate was Joseph Meany, Waltham, Mass., school boy chosen to make the voyage by the Boys' Clubs of America. ---This book, though, uses the 1957 experiences of Graham Nunn to write a fictional-historical account of Will Latham who sailed on the first Mayflower. Will was a 13 year-old orphan, the apprentice of Pilgrim John Carver. It's known that 41 boys and girls sailed on the Mayflower.