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General Society Of Mayflower Descendants
The General Society of ''Mayflower'' Descendants — commonly called the Mayflower Society — is a hereditary organization of individuals who have documented their descent from at least one of the 102 passengers who arrived on the ''Mayflower'' in 1620 at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Society was founded at Plymouth in 1897. Organization A primary goal of the Society is to educate the public about the role of the Pilgrims in the early history of what would later become the United States of America. There are Mayflower societies in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada. Today, it is estimated that up to tens of millions of Americans have at least one ancestor who was among this group of early settlers. Any person able to document their descent from one or more of the ''Mayflower'' Pilgrims is eligible to apply for membership in the Mayflower Society. The General Society of ''Mayflower'' Descendants is listed as an approved lineage society w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayflower House Museum
The Mayflower House Museum is an 18th-century period historic house museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts operated by The Mayflower Society, also known as the General Society of ''Mayflower'' Descendants. The Society purchased the Edward Winslow House in 1941. The mansion home was originally built in 1754 by Edward Winslow, a loyalist who escaped to Halifax, Nova Scotia. He died shortly after and was buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia). (His son Edward Winslow made a significant contribution to the establishment of the loyalist colony of New Brunswick.) Winslow was the great-grandson of Edward Winslow, third Governor of Plymouth Colony. The mansion contains 18th century period decorations and furnishings. On September 14, 1835, Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bradford (1590-1657)
William Bradford ( 19 March 15909 May 1657) was an English Puritan separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the ''Mayflower'' in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. His journal ''Of Plymouth Plantation'' covered the years from 1620 to 1646 in Plymouth. ''The fast and thanksgiving days of New England'' by William Deloss Love, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Cambridge, 1895. Early life [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hopkins (settler)
Stephen Hopkins (by about 1579 – between 6 June and 17 July 1644) was a passenger on the ''Mayflower'' in 1620, one of 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636.George Ernest Bowman. ''The Mayflower Compact and its signers'' (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920). Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document. He worked as a Tanning (leather), tanner and merchant and was recruited by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London to provide the governance for the colony and to assist with the colony's ventures. He was the only ''Mayflower'' passenger with prior New World experience, having been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and arriving at Jamestown, Virginia in May 1610. Hopkins left Jamestown in 1614 and returned to England. English origins Hopkins was baptized 30 April 1581 at Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England,Baptisms, Marriages and Buriales of Up-Clatforde", Hampshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Hopkins
Constance Hopkins (baptized May 11, 1606 – October 1677), also sometimes listed as Constanta, was a passenger on the ''Mayflower'' in 1620. Biography Hopkins was probably born in Hursley, England since her baptism record is there along with older sister and younger brother. Constance was the second daughter of Stephen Hopkins, by his first wife, Mary. Some believe she was named in honor of Constance (Marline) Hopkins. Constance, at the age of fourteen, along with her father and his second wife Elizabeth (Fisher), accompanied by brother Giles, half-sister Damaris as well as two servants by the name of Edward Doty and Edward Lester were passengers on the ''Mayflower'' on its journey to the New World in 1620. Along the way her half-brother Oceanus was born, the only child born on the Mayflower journey. Her memorial plaque, in the Cove Burying Ground in Eastham, Massachusetts, placed in 1966 by descendants, states in part "Wife of Nicholas Snow, Eastham's first town cler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Fuller (Mayflower Physician)
Samuel Fuller (c. 1580/81 – between August 9 and September 26, 1633 in Plymouth)Charles Edward Banks, ''The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers: who came to Plymouth on the ''Mayflower'' in 1620, the ''Fortune'' in 1621, and the ''Anne'' and the ''Little James'' in 1623'' (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2006), p. 56 was a passenger on the historic 1620 voyage of the Pilgrim ship ''Mayflower'' and became a respected church deacon and the physician for Plymouth Colony.''A genealogical profile of Samuel Fuller,'' (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013) ' English origins He was baptized on January 20, 1580 at Redenhall with Harleston, Redenhall, county of Norfolk, England. Samuel was a son of Robert Fuller, a butcher, and his first wife Sarah Dunthorne. She was buried there on July 1, 1584. In 1614 Samuel is mentioned in the will of his father Robert, but was bequeathed a small amount of inheritance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Fuller (Mayflower)
Edward Fuller (1575 – winter of 1620/21) was a passenger on the historic 1620 voyage of the ship ''Mayflower''. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and perished with his wife soon after the passengers came ashore to their new settlement at Plymouth.Caleb H. Johnson, ''The Mayflower and Her Passengers'' (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., copyright 2006 Caleb Johnson), p. 144. Biography Early life Fuller was baptised at Redenhall, in Norfolk, England, on 4 September 1575. He and his brother Samuel Fuller (''c.'' 1580–1633), also a ''Mayflower'' passenger, were the sons of Robert Fuller, a butcher, and apparently of Robert's first wife Sarah Dunkhorn (she was buried at Redenhall on 1 July 1584). There is very little additional existing documentation on the life of Edward Fuller in England.''A genealogical profile of Edward Fuller,'' (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved 2013) ' His father, who died by early 1614, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Fletcher
Moses Fletcher (in Pilgrim records written by William Bradford his name is given as Moyses Fletcher; c. 1564 – 1620/1) was a Leiden Separatist who came to America on the historic 1620 voyage of the Pilgrim ship ''Mayflower''. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and perished shortly thereafter in the Pilgrims first winter in the New World.Caleb H. Johnson, ''The Mayflower and Her Passengers'' (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., copyright 2006 Caleb Johnson), p. 142.Eugene Aubrey Stratton, ''Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691,'' (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp. 291, 406, 409 Life in England Moses was born about 1564 in Kent County, England, probably in the Sandwich area. He seems to have lived much of his early life there, having married Mary Evans in 1589 and where all ten of his children were baptized. Per Banks, he was a smith by occupation with the parish register of St. Peter's, Sandwich providing information on his children's baptisms.Eugene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Eaton (Mayflower Passenger)
Francis Eaton was born ca. 1596 in Bristol, England, and died in the autumn of 1633 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He, with his wife and son, were passengers on the historic 1620 voyage of the ''Mayflower''. His signature appears on the Mayflower Compact.Johnson, pp. 138-140Stratton, p. 286 Early life in England Francis Eaton was baptised on 11 September 1596 at St. Thomas' Church in Bristol, England.Johnson, p. 138Pilgrim Hall Museum Francis Eaton' Francis was a son of John Eaton and his wife Dorothy (Smith). He had younger siblings who were born after him – including Jane in 1598/99, Samuel in 1600 and Welthian in 1602, but all siblings died of a possible devastating illness in March 1603 which may have spread through the whole family. He was the only child of this family known to survive until adulthood. ''A genealogical profile of Francis Eaton,'' (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013) Eaton had bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Doty
Edward Doty (August 23, 1655) was a passenger on the 1620 voyage of the ''Mayflower'' to North America; he was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. Early life Doty came from England, but from where in England is currently unknown. A possibility might be East Halton in Lincolnshire. According to author Charles Edward Banks, Doty was from London and traveled with another Londoner, Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger), Stephen Hopkins, as his servant. Hopkins was making his second journey to the New World as he had served about ten years prior under John Smith (explorer), Capt. John Smith at Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown, Colony of Virginia, Virginia Colony. ''Mayflower'' voyage Edward Doty departed Plymouth, England, aboard the ''Mayflower'' on September 6/16, 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30–40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship's t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke (c.1583 – April 7, 1663) was a Leiden English Separatist, Separatist, who went to America in 1620 on the Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony), Pilgrim ship ''Mayflower'', which arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. Early life Cooke's ancestry is unknown, and there are no definite records regarding his birth."Author Charles Edward Banks points out that there is at Biddenden, Kent a baptismal record for a child named Francis, a son of Thomas Cooke, dated April 6, 1572. Added to that, there was a considerable Walloons, Walloon, or French–Belgian, colony in nearby Canterbury (Kent). Banks also speculates that he could have been born in England of foreign parents, who then returned to Holland before April of 1603, when Francis Cooke is recorded witnessing a betrothal in Leiden, Holland. This was six years before the arrival in Leiden of Pastor John Robinson's Pilgrims, who would l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chilton
James Chilton (c. 15561620) was a Leiden Separatist passenger on the historic 1620 voyage of the ship ''Mayflower'' and was the oldest person on board. Upon arrival in the New World, he was a signer of the Mayflower Compact. James Chilton was one of the earliest to die that winter, perishing within the following month. Life in England Chilton was born about 1556 (age 63 in 1619) probably in Canterbury, Kent, England. The Chilton surname is an ancient one that appears in records from at least 1339, when his ancestor Robert Chilton was a Canterbury parliamentary representative.''A genealogical profile of James Chilton,'' (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013) His father was Lyonel Chilton.Eugene Aubrey Stratton, ''Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691'' (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 262 James became a freeman in 1583 in Canterbury, and in a Canterbury Quarter Session in the next year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Browne (Mayflower Pilgrim)
Peter Browne''A genealogical profile of Peter Browne,'' (a collaboration of Plymouth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2016), https://www.plimoth.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg-images/brown_peter_2.pdf ( 15941633), was a passenger on the historic 1620 voyage of the ''Mayflower'' and was a signatory of the Mayflower Compact.Caleb H. Johnson, ''The Mayflower and Her Passengers,'' (Indiana:Xlibris Corp., 2006), p. 107 Life in England Browne was baptised on 26 January 1594/5 in Dorking, Surrey, England. This was the same home town as other ''Mayflower'' passengers – the Mullins family.Caleb H. Johnson, ''The Mayflower and Her Passengers'' (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., 2006), p. 102 Peter Browne was a son of William Browne of Dorking. He had two older siblings, Jane and Thomas, as well as three younger brothers, Samuel, John and James. In or about 1605, when Peter was about ten years of age, his father died and the children may have been sent to family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
