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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 ...
Servant, aged likely between 21 and 25. He signed the Mayflower Compact, with his name spelled as "Doten". He had a long, controversial life in Plymouth Colony, dying about 1655. [8]: 132–137, 164 [16]: 283–285, 413 [9]: 51 Edward Leister. As reported by William Bradford, he came on the Mayflower as a servant to Stephen Hopkins. He signed ...
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.)
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.
The rest of Thomas Rogers (children) came over, and are married, and have many children." [14] [2] Thomas Rogers was buried, likely in an unmarked grave as with most Mayflower passengers who died in the first winter, in Cole's Hill Burial Ground in Plymouth. The name of Thomas Rogers is memorialized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb on Cole's Hill. [15]
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;
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.
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 ...