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By June 1620, he and Mayflower had been hired for the Pilgrims voyage by their business agents in London, Thomas Weston of the Merchant Adventurers and Robert Cushman. [51] [52] Historical marker in London honoring Mayflower and Captain Jones Plymouth Rock, which commemorates the landing of Mayflower in 1620. Masters Mate: John Clark (Clarke ...
Godbert Godbertson (also known as Cuthbert Cuthbertson) – Hat maker from Leiden, Holland. His second wife Sarah, sister of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton, was twice widowed, the last from Mayflower passenger Degory Priest. Priest died in the winter of 1620/21 and Sarah returned to Leiden where she remarried sometime after Oct. 25 1621.
Mayflower was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
Noted Mayflower author Caleb Johnson, writing in the March 2011 issue of The Mayflower Quarterly, provided information from extensive research of English records over the Little James affair. Johnson states that a number of depositions and other Admiralty records have survived in the case of Stephens and Fell vs. Little James. The following is ...
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. When the Mullins family boarded the Mayflower, it consisted of William, then nearing 50 years of age, his wife Alice, daughter Priscilla (probably about 17 years old) and son Joseph (probably about 15 years old), as well as a servant, Robert Carter.
The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Plymouth, Massachusetts. John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1620, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon.
Stephen Hopkins (fl. 1579 – d. 1644) [2] was an English adventurer to the Virginia Colony and Plymouth Colony.Most notably, he 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. [3]
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. William Bradford, in his memoirs, listed the Tilley family on the Mayflower as: "John Tillie, and his wife; and Elizabeth, their daughter." [1] Elizabeth would have been about 13 years old during the journey. The Landing of the Pilgrims (1877) by Henry A. Bacon.