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He was named in Mourt's Relation (London, 1622), under a date of January 12, 1621, as a leader of an expedition to rescue Pilgrims lost in the forest for several days while searching for housing-roof thatch. It is unknown in what capacity he came to Mayflower and his given name is unknown. The title of "Master" indicates that he was a person of ...
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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.
He was a prosperous man who invested a large portion of his personal wealth in the voyage. He came on the Mayflower with his wife and five servants, one of whom was Roger Wilder who died early, along with a 7-year boy in his care named Jasper More. (Jasper was one of the four More children on board and one of the earliest to die.)
List of Mayflower passengers who died at sea November/December 1620; List of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620–21; Mayflower Society; A. John Alden;
Jasper was of the bizarre case of the four More children, ages 4 to 8, who were forcibly taken from their mother, held away from her for over four years and then were, without her knowledge, given over to those on the Mayflower to be sent to Virginia colony as indentured servants. Bradford recorded (441, 443) that Jasper died "of the common ...
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882) Thomas Rogers (c. 1571 – January 11, 1621) was a Leiden Separatist who traveled in 1620 with his eldest son Joseph as passengers on the historic voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower. Thomas Rogers was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact, but perished in the winter of 1620/21. His son ...
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, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Bowman, George Ernest (1920). The Mayflower Compact and its signers. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants.