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*'''Winslow, Gilbert''' (], ]), brother to "Pilgrim" Edward Winslow but not known to have lived in Leiden. *'''Winslow, Gilbert''' (], ]), brother to "Pilgrim" Edward Winslow but not known to have lived in Leiden.
*''']*'''<ref>Ruth Wilder Sherman, CG, FASG, and Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of William White'', Vol. 13 3rd edition (Pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2006) pg. 3.</ref> *''']*'''<ref name="sherperson">Ruth Wilder Sherman, CG, FASG, and Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of William White'', Vol. 13 3rd edition (Pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2006) pg. 3.</ref>
**'''Susanna White ''', wife widowed February 21, 1621, subsequently married Edward Winslow - first Plymouth wedding <ref>Nathaniel Philbrick. Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community and War (Viking 2006) p. 104</ref><ref>Ruth Wilder Sherman, CG, FASG, and Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of William White'', Vol. 13 3rd edition (Pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2006) pg. 3.</ref> **'''Susanna White ''', wife widowed February 21, 1621, subsequently married Edward Winslow - first Plymouth wedding <ref>Nathaniel Philbrick. Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community and War (Viking 2006) p. 104</ref><ref name="sherperson"/>
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Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882)

This is a list of the passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 - November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. Of the passengers, 37 were members of the separatist Leiden congregation seeking freedom of worship in the New World. The Mayflower launched with 102 passengers, as well as at least two dogs, and a crew of 25-30 headed by Captain Christopher Jones. One baby was born during the trip and named Oceanus Hopkins. Another, Peregrine (meaning "wanderer") White, was born on the Mayflower in America on November 20, before the settlement at Plymouth. About half of these emigrants died in the first winter. Many Americans can trace their ancestry back to one or more of these individuals who, 'Saints' and 'Strangers' together, would become known as the Pilgrims.

Leiden, Holland congregation

Provincetown memorial to Pilgrims who died in Cape Cod Harbor.

Persons with an asterick after their name are known to have died in the winter of 1620-1621

Planters recruited by Thomas Weston, of London merchant adventurers

Men hired to stay one year

  • Alden, John (Harwich, Essex) - considered a ship's crewman (he was the ship's cooper) but joined settlers
  • Allerton, John*, was listed as a hired man but was apparently related to one of the Pilgrim families onboard, Isaac Allerton's, who all came from Leiden. He sailed in order to settle in North America, and was to return to England to help the rest of the group immigrate, but died during the first winter of the Pilgrims' settlement. He may have been a relative of the "Pilgrim" Allerton family.
  • Ely, Richard, hired as seaman, returned to England after term was up but later returned to New England and died there. He is mentioned briefly as a sailor by name of Ely in "Of Plymouth Plantation."
  • English, Thomas*, hired to master a shallop but died in the winter
  • Trevore, William, hired as seaman, returned to England after term was up

Servants

Thirteen of the eighteen persons in this category were attached to Pilgrim families, the other five were with non-Pilgrim families. Four of those listed here were small children, given over by Samuel More to Thomas Weston and then to agents John Carver and Robert Cushman, who assigned them to senior Mayflower Pilgrims to be classed as indentured servants. This was all due to scandal involving the children’s mother and her husband Samuel’s effort to dispose of the children by sending them away to Virginia as indentured servants. Long ago, Richard More and his siblings were even thought to have even been parentless London street waifs, but in 1959 a 1622 document revealed the whole scandal and the reason behind the children being sent on the Mayflower.

Mayflower plaque in St. James Church in Shipton, Shropshire commemorating the More children baptism. courtesy of Phil Revell
  • Butten, William*, age: "a youth", servant of Samuel Fuller, only person who died during the voyage
  • Carter, Robert*, teenager, servant or apprentice to William Mullins, shoemaker.
  • --?--, Dorothy, teenager, maidservant of John Carver.
  • Doty, Edward, (possibly Lincolnshire) age probably about 21, servant to Stephen Hopkins
  • Holbeck, William*, age likely under 21, servant to William White
  • Hooke, John*, (probably Norwich, Norfolk) age 13, apprenticed to Isaac Allerton, died during the first winter
  • Howland, John (probably Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire), age about 21, manservant for Governor John Carver
  • Langmore, John* (probably Shropshire or Worcestershire), age under 21, servant to the Christopher Martin
  • Latham, William, age 11, servant/apprentice to the John Carver family
  • Leister, Edward (Kensington), aged over 21, servant to Stephen Hopkins
  • More, Ellen (Elinor)*, {Shipton, Shropshire), Elinor (Ellen) More, age 8, assigned as a servant of Edward Winslow. She died in November 1620 soon after the arrival of the Mayflower at Cape Cod Harbor. Her burial place is unknown and may have been ashore on Cape Cod similarly to her brother Jasper several weeks later. With many others who died that winter, her name appears on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb, Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  • More, Jasper*, (Shipton, Shropshire), brother, age 7, indentured to John Carver. He died onboard Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor December 6, 1620. He was buried ashore in the Provincetown area.
  • Richard More, (Shipton, Shropshire), brother, age 6, indentured to William Brewster. Richard More is buried in what was known as the Charter Street Burial Ground but is now the Burying Point/Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts. He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the mid-1690s. Also buried nearby in the same cemetery were his two wives, Christian Hunter More and Jane (Crumpton) More."
  • More, Mary*, (Shipton, Shropshire), age 6, assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621. Her burial place is unknown, but may been on Cole's Hill in Plymouth in an unmarked grave as with so many others buried there that winter. As with her sister Ellen, she is recognized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb in Plymouth, misidentified after her sister's name as "and a brother (children)" - the statement of calling her "a brother" mistakenly coming from William Bradford's failing memory years after the event of her death.
  • Soule, George, 21-25, servant or employee of Edward Winslow
  • Story, Elias*, age under 21, in the care of Edward Winslow
  • Thompson/Thomson, Edward*, age under 21, in the care of the William White family, first passenger to die after the Mayflower reached Cape Cod.
  • Wilder, Roger*, age under 21, servant in the John Carver family
  • Williams, Thomas*, (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)

In all, there were 102 passengers on the Mayflower - 74 males and 28 females

Carpenters

  • Kerr, George

Animals

At least two dogs are known to have participated in the settling of Plymouth. In Mourt's Relation Edward Winslow writes that a female mastiff and a small springer spaniel came ashore on the first explorations of what is now Provincetown. There may have been other animals on the Mayflower, but only these two dogs had been mentioned.

See also

References

  1. Locations of birth for Mayflower passengers follow Caleb Johnson's list as found at Mayflower History.com. Retrieved August 29, 2006.
  2. ^ Division of passengers by category generally follows Appendix I of Saints and Strangers by George F. Willison with the following exceptions, as per The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, Passengers on the Mayflower: Ages & Occupations, Origins & Connections , 2000, Patricia Scott Deetz and James F. Deetz: The families of James Chilton and Edward Fuller, brother of "saint" Samuel Fuller as well as Thomas Williams, are now known to have been living at Leiden and cannot fit the category of recruited by London merchants and have been listed with the Pilgrims. Significant scholarship has produced many new documents since Willison's 1945 publication.
  3. ^ Humility Cooper and Henry Sampson were both children who joined their uncle and aunt Edward and Ann Tilley for the voyage. Willison lists them as "strangers" because they were not members of the church at Leiden; however, as children they would have been under their aunt and uncle who were members of that group.
  4. David Lindsay, PhD. Mayflower Bastard: A Stranger amongst the Pilgrims (St. Martins Press, New York, 2002) p. 27
  5. ^ Ruth Wilder Sherman, CG, FASG, and Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of William White, Vol. 13 3rd edition (Pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2006) pg. 3.
  6. Nathaniel Philbrick. Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community and War (Viking 2006) p. 104
  7. "MayflowerHistory.com". MayflowerHistory.com. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
  8. Donald F. Harris, PhD. The Mayflower Descendant (July 1993) vol. 43 p. 123-4 and (January and July 1994 vol. 44 p. 110-113
  9. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1835987
  10. http://www.petplace.com/Articles/artShow.asp?artID=1690

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