"the boat" meaning in English

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          "text": "Angela Davis, longtime revolutionary and former member of the Communist Party, was stunned to learn that she, of all people, could trace her ancestry back to the boat.",
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          "ref": "2020, Josephine de la Bruyere, “The Duality of Being a Mayflower Descendant”, in The Provincetown Independent",
          "text": "Bit by bit, she learned the stories of her ancestors and of Cape Cod. And it occurred to her: “These people,” she said, “probably went all the way back to The Boat.”",
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          "text": "“So, I started working on that particular individual where the error occurred and found out almost immediately that we did descend from William Brewster,\" Wheaton said. “The story I always tell, when I found the error, I walked over to where my friends were sitting and said, ‘Well, I am off the boat.’ They commiserated and then I went back to work and was eventually able to say, ‘I am back on the boat again.’”",
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        "In US history and genealogy, a nickname for The Mayflower, the ship on which the Pilgrims sailed from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620."
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