| The first group of Mayflower Passengers, the
Leiden Group, were the religious Separatists who had originally fled
from England to Leiden, Holland. The initial Leiden group had come to
Holland in 1608 from the general region of England where
Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire meet (from towns like
Scrooby and Austerfield). Over time additional members arrived and
joined the church in Leiden, especially from Separatist groups from
Canterbury and Sandwich, Kent; Norwich and Yarmouth, Norfolk;
Colchester, Essex; and London. The second group of Mayflower Passengers, the London Group, were in some way associated with the investors who were putting their money into the joint-stock company the Pilgrims were using to fund their voyage. Some had Puritan sentiments and were relatives of the Leiden group, but had not made the migration to Holland. A few had financial schemes rolling through their minds while others simply wanted to go to Virginia to start a new life with new opportunities. Below is a list showing which group the various passengers belonged to. Half of the Pilgrims died during the first winter after their arrival. Slightly more than half of them left colonial descendants with more than fifty million living today, a number that is increasing exponentially. BOLD
UPPER CASE LAST NAME = Lived and left colonial ancestors Bold lower
case = Died the first winter and left colonial ancestors UPPER CASE = Lived through first winter with no known colonial ancestors Lower case = Died the first winter with no known colonial ancestors Spouses that arrived later and did not travel on the Mayflower are in Blue Special notes are in red |
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Leiden Group (The Separatists or "Saints" )
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London Group (The Investors or "Strangers")
11 Saints, 8 Strangers and 4 Servants signed and left colonial descendants. All 33 male Saints and Strangers signed the Mayflower Compact. No women or children signed the document. Eight sailor and servants signed the Compact for a total of 41 signatures. Only 16 signers lived through the first winter. All living signers of the Mayflower Compact left colonial descendants. |
The Children
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Sailors, Hired Hands and Servants
41 Living passengers left colonial descendants 12 Passengers who died the first winter left descendants 1 Passenger died before arrival at Plymouth and is not officially counted. 23 Compact signers left descendants (All 23 are approved by GSMD) 11 Women left descendants (Only 3 are approved by GSMD) 15 Children left descendants (Only 2 are approved by GSMD) 4 Sailors and Servants left descendants (Plus Moses Fletcher by GSMD) 53 Mayflower Passengers left descendants (equals 29 approved by GSMD) 51 Passengers died before the Mayflower departed 51 Passengers lived through the first winter 102 Official Mayflower Passengers + Peregrine WHITE and William Butten =104 |
The above list contains 49 individuals with two dead before the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth. Some apparently died in early April, for which a count is not given with three of the April deaths probably Joseph and Alice Mullins and Robert Carter, who are mentioned in the will of William Mullins with no notation indicating they had died. The Mayflower departed Plymouth on April 5 for the return voyage to England. John Carver and his wife Katherine died shortly after the Mayflower's departed, but are not in and are not included here. John died of an apparent sunstroke in later April, and Katherine died of a "broken heart" within a couple of weeks, probably sometime in May. William Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation says that John Goodman also died the first winter, but John Goodman is named in the 1623 Division of Land, so it seems he survived at least that long, however, he is not found in the 1627 Division of Cattle.
"So as there died sometimes two or three of a day in the aforesaid time, that of 100 and odd persons, scarce fifty remained. And these, in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them. In a word, did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to be named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren; a rare example and worthy to be remembered."It also would have been up to these "Magnificent Seven" to bury the dead on what is now Cole's Hill.
"Two of these seven were Mr. William Brewster, their reverend Elder, and Myles Standish, their Captain and military commander, unto whom myself and many others were much beholden in our low and sick condition. And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness."Bradford most likely would not have selected any of the wives, children, servants or sailors to be honored. Additionally, he tells us that he and Gov. John Carver were not among them.
Listing of all Mayflower Passengers
with Mayflower Compact signers noted.
*ALDEN, John
| Cooper, Stranger. 7th signer of Compact |
| b. England, about 1599. Prob. from Harwich, Essex |
| m. probably 1622/3 to Priscilla Mullins [who also came on the Mayflower] |
| d. Duxbury, MA, 1687 |
*ALLERTON, Isaac
| Tailor, Merchant, Undertaker, Purchaser, Saint. 5th signer of Compact |
| b. England, ca.1586 |
| m. (1) Leiden, Holland, 4 Nov 1611 Mary Norris [who also came on the Mayflower]. d. Plymouth 25 Feb 1620/1. Five children. |
| m. (2) Plymouth, ca. 1626 Fear Brewster [dau. of Wm. & Mary Brewster of the Mayflower], d. Plymouth bef. 12 Dec. 1634. Two children |
| m. (3) prob. New Haven, CT., bef. 17 Feb. 1644/5 Joanna Swinnerton, living at New Haven, CT 19 May 1684. |
| d. New Haven, CT bet 1 Feb 1658/9 and 12 Feb 1658/9 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Seventeen, ISAAC ALLERTON - Compiled by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG and Margaret Harris Stover, 1998 |
*ALLERTON, Mary [Norris]
| Wife of Isaac Allerton |
| b. ca. of Newbury, Berkshire, England |
| d. 25 Feb 1620/1 at Plymouth |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Seventeen, ISAAC ALLERTON - Compiled by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG and Margaret Harris Stover, 1998 |
ALLERTON, Bartholomew
| Son of Isaac and Mary [Norris] Allerton |
| b. Leiden, Holland, ca. 1612. Returned to England where he married twice. |
| m. (1) prob. Suffolk, England, Margaret (Maiden name unknown); Three children. |
| m. (2) Sarah Fairfax, probably Rumbough, Suffolk, England; One child. (no documented colonial descendants) |
| d. prob. Bramfield Co., Suffolk, England between 15 Oct 1658 and 19 Feb 1658/9 |
*ALLERTON, Remember
| Daughter of Isaac and Mary [Norris] Allerton |
| b. Leiden, Holland, ca. 1614 |
| m. before 6 May 1635 Moses Maverick, bapt. Huish, Devon Co., England, 3 Nov 1611; d. Marblehead, MA, 28 Jan 1685/6]; children: seven |
| d. between 12 Sep 1652 and 22 Oct 1656 |
*ALLERTON, Mary
| Daughter of Isaac and Mary [Norris] Allerton |
| bapt. Leiden, Holland, June 1616 |
| m. Plymouth, MA, ca. 1636 Thomas Cushman who came on the
Fortune, bapt. Canterbury, Kent, England, 8 Feb. 1607/8; d. Plymouth 10 or 11 Dec 1691]; Eight children. |
| d. Plymouth, MA, 28 Nov 1699. [The last survivor of those who arrived on the Mayflower] |
ALLERTON, John
| Brother of Isaac Allerton, Hired seaman, 38th signer of Compact |
| b. information unknown |
| m. Unknown; children: Unknown |
| d. Plymouth 1621 before the Mayflower returned to England Died the first winter |
*BILLINGTON, John
| b. perhaps Lincolnshire, England, ca. 1590. Troublemaker, Stranger. 26th signer of Compact |
| m. England by 1604 Elinor (maiden name unknown); Two children [both on Mayflower] |
| d. Plymouth Sept 1630. (Hanged for murder) |
*BILLINGTON, Elinor
| Wife of John Billington |
| b. perhaps Lincolnshire, England, ca. 1580. |
| m. (2) bet. 14 and 21 Sep 1638 Gregory Armstrong, d. Plymouth 5 Nov 1650 |
| d. aft. 2 Mar 1642/3 |
BILLINGTON, John
| Son of John and Elinor Billington |
| b. possibly Lincolnshire, England, ca.1604. |
| m. Unmarried. |
| d. bet. 22 May 1627 and Sept 1630 |
*BILLINGTON, Francis
| Son of John and Elinor Billington |
| b. possibly Lincolnshire, England, ca. 1606-1609. |
| m. Plymouth July 1634 Christian (Penn) Eaton; b. England ca. 1607; d. Middleboro 1684 |
| children: nine |
| d. Middleboro 3 Dec 1684 |
*BRADFORD, William
| bapt. Austerfield, Yorkshire, England, 19 Mar 1589/90. Fustian maker. Saint. 2nd signer of Compact |
| m. (1) Amsterdam, Holland, 10 Dec 1613 Dorothy May [who came on the Mayflower]; children: one |
| m. (2) Plymouth 14 Aug 1623 Alice (Carpenter) Southworth,
bapt. Wrington, Somerset, England, 3 Aug 1590; d.
Plymouth 26 or27 Mar 1670; she m. in Leiden, Holland, 28 May 1613 Edward Southworh by whom she had sons Constant and Thomas; children: three |
| d. Plymouth 9 May 1657 |
*BRADFORD, Dorothy (May)
| Wife of William Bradford |
| b. ca. 1597 Wisbech, Cambridge. |
| d. 7 Dec 1620. Fell off of the ship and drowned at Cape Cod before landing at Plymouth. |
*BREWSTER, William
| Teacher Printer. Saint. 4th signer of Compact |
| born probably Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, circa 1566/7. |
| m. England cbefore 1593 Mary (maiden name unknown) [who came on the Mayflower] |
| d. Plymouth, Mass. 10 April 1644, about 9 or 10 o'clock that evening. |
*BREWSTER, Mary
| Wife of William Brewster |
| b. probably England circa 1568/9. |
| d. Plymouth, 17 Apr 1627 |
BREWSTER, Love
| Son of William and Mary Brewster. Freeman, farmer, served in Pequot War in Standish's Duxbury Company, juryman, Founder of Duxbury |
| b. Leiden, Holland, 1611. |
| m. Duxbury 15 May 1634 Sarah Collier; b. ca. 1616; d. Plymouth 26 Apr 1691 |
| d. Duxbury bef. 31 Jan 1650 |
BREWSTER, Wrestling
| Son of William and Mary Brewster. |
| b. Leiden, Holland, 1614. |
| m. Died unmarried. |
| d. 1635. |
BRITTERIDGE, Richard
| b. information unknown. Stranger. 34th signer of Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. Plymouth 1620. Died soon after landing |
*BROWNE, Peter
| b. England bef.1600, Great Burstead, Essex. Stranger. 33rd signer of the Compact |
| m. (1) Plymouth ca. 1624 Martha (maiden name unknown) Ford
[who came on the Fortune]; b. prob. England; d. Plymouth bet. 1628 and 1630; Two children |
| m. (2) Plymouth ca. 1630 Mary (maiden name unknown), d. prob. bef. 27 Oct. 1647; Two children |
| d. Plymouth bet 25 March 1633 and 28 October 1633 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Seven, PETER BROWN by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1992 |
BUTTEN, William
| b. 1598, Austerfield, Yorkshire. Servant to Samuel Fuller. Did not sign the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1620. Died at sea just three days before landing at Cape Cod. |
CARTER, Robert
| b. information unknown, London? Servant to William Mullins. Did not sign the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. Plymouth 1620/21. Died first winter |
CARVER, John
| b. Doncaster, England, 1565. Merchant. Saint. 1st signer of the Compact |
| m. information unknown. Katherine (maiden name unknown) [who came on the Mayflower]; children: none known |
| d. Plymouth 1621. Died the first winter |
CARVER, Katherine (Leggett) (White)
| b. 1580. wife of John Carver |
| d. Plymouth 1621. Died the first winter |
*CHILTON, James
| b. prob. Canterbury, Kent, England, before 1556. Tailor. Saint. Lived in Leiden. 24th signer of Compact |
| m. England bef. 1587, once thought to be Susanna Furner
(dau. of his step-mother) [who came on the Mayflower], but recent research has proven this wrong; Ten children He was the oldest passenger on the Mayflower. |
| d. 18 Dec 1620 aboard the Mayflower in Died the first winter in Cape Cod Harbor before arrival at Plymouth |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Fifteen, JAMES CHILTON 1997 |
*CHILTON, Susanna (maiden name unknown)
| Wife of James Chilton |
| b. information unknown. |
| d. Plymouth shortly after 11 Jan 1620/21, Died the first winter |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Fifteen, JAMES CHILTON 1997 |
*CHILTON, Mary
| Daughter of James and Susanna Chilton |
| bapt. St. Peter's Parish, Sanndwich, Kent, England, ca. 1605. |
| m. Plymouth bet. July 1623 and 22 May 1627, prob spring of 1626, John Winslow son of Mayflower Passenger Edward Winslow. [b. Droitwich Worcestershire, England, 16 Apr 1597; d. Boston bef. 21 May 1674]; children: ten |
| d. Boston bef. 1 May 1675 |
CLARKE, Richard
| b.information unknown, London Stranger. 36th signer of Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. Plymouth 1621. Died the first winter |
*COOKE, Francis
| b. probably England, aft. August 1582. Woolcomber. Purchaser. Saint. 17th signer of Compact |
| m. Leiden, Holland 4 Jul 1603 Hester Mahieu (not on Mayflower) [d. aft. 8 Jun 1666]; Seven children |
| d. Plymouth 7 Apr 1663 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Twelve, FRANCIS COOKE by Ralph Van Wood, Jr., 1996 |
*COOKE, John
| Son of Francis and Hester Cooke |
| bapt. Leiden, Holland, Jan/Mar 1607. |
| m. Plymouth 28 Mar 1634 Sarah Warren dau. of Richard Warren of the Mayflower [b. England; d. aft. 7 Dec 1696]; Five children. |
| d. Dartmouth 23 Nov 1695 |
COOPER, Humility
| b. 1619, London. Infant Niece of Edward Tilley. |
| m. Unknown Probably never married. Who took care of two year old Humility on the return voyage? |
| d. information unknown. Returned to England with no know colonial ancestors. |
CRACKSTON, John
| b. information unknown, Colchester. Saint. 25th signer of Compact |
| m. information unknown; children: one with no know colonial ancestors. |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter. |
CRACKSTON, John, Jr.
| b. information unknown. probably about 1610. Son of John, Sr. |
| m. information unknown with no known colonial ancestors. |
| d. 1628. Died young of gangrene after getting injured and lost in the woods. |
*DOTY, Edward
| b. bef. 1600. prob. England. Servant to Stephen Hopkins. 40th signer of Compact. [Duel with Edward Leister] |
| m. (1) information unknown |
| m. (2) Plymouth 6 Jan 1634/5 Faith Clarke who came on the
ship Francis with her father , b. prob. England ca. 1619; bur. Marshfield 21 Dec 1675; Nine children |
| d. Plymouth, 23 August 1655 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Eleven, EDWARD DOTY by Peter B. Hill, 1996 |
*EATON, Francis
| b. England. Carpenter/shipwright, Purchaser. Stranger. 23rd signer of Compact |
| m. (1) England Sarah b. England; d. Plymouth early in 1621; One child |
| m. (2) in Plymouth, a woman known only as Mrs. Carver's maid [d. Plymouth ca. 1624] |
| m. (3) in Plymouth 1624/5 Christian Penn who came on the Anne [d. Middleboro ca. 1684]; Three children |
| d. bet. 25 Oct and 8 Nov 1633 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Nine, FRANCIS EATON originally by Lee D. vanAntwerp, M.D., C.G., revised by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1996 |
*EATON, Sarah
| b. in England. Wife of Francis Eaton |
| d. in Plymouth in early 1621, Died the first winter |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Nine, FRANCIS EATON originally by Lee D. vanAntwerp, M.D., C.G., revised by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1996 |
*EATON, Samuel
| b. in England, 1620, Son of Francis Eaton He was raised by John Cooke after his parents died. |
| m. (1) bef. 10 Mar 1646 Elizabeth (maiden name unknown), d. after 5 Oct 1652, but bef. 1661 children: two |
| m. (2) in Plymouth 10 Jan 1660/1 Martha Billington, d. after 9 Jun 1704 prob. CT children: four |
| d. before 29 October 1684 at Middleboro, Massachusetts |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Nine, FRANCIS EATON originally by Lee D. vanAntwerp, M.D., C.G., revised by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1996 |
(SEAMAN) ELY
| First name unknown |
| b. information unknown. Sailor. Laborer Hired for one year. Did not sign Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. Unknown Returned to England after one year. |
ENGLISH, Thomas
| b. information unknown. Mariner. Hired for one year. 39th signer of Compact |
| m. Unknown. |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
FLETCHER, Moses
| b. information unknown. Sandwich, Kent Blacksmith. Saint. 27th signer of Compact |
| m. Mary Evans, 30 October 1589, Sandwich, Kent, England, Sarah Denby (widow), 21 December 1613, Leiden. |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter. Children (all by Mary): Mary, John, Catherine, Richard, Priscilla, Moses, Elizabeth, Jane, Moses, Judith |
| Moses left his wife and children in Leiden. None are recorded as emigrating to the colonies, however he is listed by GSMD. |
*FULLER, Edward
| baptised in Redenhall, Norfolk County, England, 4 Sep 1575. [brother of Samuel Fuller] . Stranger. 21st signer of Compact. |
| m. prob. England. His wife's maiden name is unknown; she came on the Mayflower]; Two children. [Only son Samuel came on the Mayflower] |
| d. shortly after 11 Jan 1620/21 Died the first winter |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Four, Second Edition, EDWARD FULLER by Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, 1995 |
*FULLER, "Mrs. Edward"
| b. information unknown. Wife of Edward Fuller [who came on the Mayflower] |
| d. shortly aft. 11 Jan 1621 Died the first winter |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Four, Second Edition, EDWARD FULLER by Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, 1995 |
*FULLER, Samuel
| b. prob. England ca. 1608 Son of Edward Fuller |
| m. Scituate 8 Apr 1635 Jane Lothrop, bapt. Edgerton, Kent, England, 29 Sep 1614; d. bef. her husband, Samuel |
| d. Barnstable 31 Oct 1683 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Four, Second Edition, EDWARD FULLER by Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, 1995 |
*FULLER, Dr. Samuel
| Sayworker, Purchaser, Physician, Deacon in Leiden church, Saint. 8th signer of the Compact |
| bapt. parish of Redenhall, Harleston, Norfolk. |
| m. (1) Alice Glascock, d. before 1613 |
| m. (2) Leiden, Holland, 24 Apr 1613 Alice Carpenter, bapt. Wrington, England, 16 Dec 1593; d. Leiden, Holland, 1615 |
| m. (3) Leiden, Holland, 27 May 1617 Bridget Lee [who came on the Anne]; d. 1664; Four children |
| d. Plymouth bet. 9 Aug and 26 Sep 1633 Dr. Fuller was a brother of Edward Fuller. |
GARDINER, Richard
| b. 1600, Harwich, Essex Mariner. Stranger. 37th signer of the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
GOODMAN, John
| b. ca. 1595. Linen weaver. Saint. 28th signer of the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
HOLBECK, William
| b. information unknown. Servant to William White. Did not sign the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
HOOKE, John
| b. information unknown. Servant to Isaac Allerton. Probably too young to sign the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
*HOPKINS, Stephen
| bapt. poss. Wortley, parish of Wotton-under-Edge,
Gloucestershire, England, 29 Oct 1581 Stranger. 14th signer of the Compact Tanner, leathermaker, Merchant Adventurer. |
| m. (1) Mary (maiden name unknown), bef. 1604, probably in
Hampshire, England. [NOTE: He did not marry Constance Dudley], a claim disproven by Caleb Johnson's article in July 1998 issue of The American Genealogist, 73:161:171 |
| children: three |
| m. (2) Whitechapel, London, England, 19 Feb 1617/8 Elizabeth Fisher [who came on the Mayflower]; children: seven |
| d. Plymouth bet. 6 Jun and 17 Jul 1644 |
*HOPKINS, Elizabeth (Fisher)
| b. information unknown. Wife of Stephen Hopkins |
| d. Plymouth aft. 4 Feb 1638/9 |
*HOPKINS, Constance
| b. 11 May 1606, Hursley, Hampshire, England, daughter of Stephen Hopkins by his first wife |
| m. prob. Plymouth 22 May 1627, Nicholas Snow who came on the Ann, d. Eastham 15 Nov 1676 |
| d. mid-October,1677, Eastham, MA |
*HOPKINS, Giles
| b. 30 Jan 1607/8, Hursley, Hampshire, England, son of Stephen Hopkins by his first wife |
| m. information unknown with ten children, however he was not married to Constance Dudley. |
| d. Eastham bet 5 Mar 1688/9 and 16 Apr 1690 |
*HOPKINS, Damaris
| b. England, 1618/19 daughter of Stephen Hopkins by his first wife |
| m. prob not. Died young |
| d. alive in 1627 but probably the daughter Bradford reported to have "dyed here". |
HOPKINS, Oceanus
| Son by second wife Elizabeth Born Enroute aboard the Mayflower |
| b. bet. 16 Sep and 11 Nov 1620. |
| m.Unmarried. Died young |
| d. bef. 22 May 1627 and prob. bef. 1623 |
*HOWLAND, John
| b. Fenstanton, England [about 9 mi. north of Cambridge],
ca. 1592. Hired hand, 13th signer of the Compact A hired hand on Mayflower who lived with John and Katherine Carver |
| m. Plymouth 1623 Elizabeth Tilley [who came on the Mayflower; see TILLEY]; children: ten |
| d. Rocky Nook, Kingston 23 Feb 1672 |
LANGEMORE, John
| b. information unknown, London. Servant to Christopher Martin. "A lad too young to sign the Compact." |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1620/21, Died the first winter |
LATHAM, William
| b. information unknown, London. Servant to John Carver. "A lad too young to sign the Compact." |
| m. Unknown with no know ancestors. |
| d. 1645. Returned to England. Later emigrated to the Bahamas. |
LEISTER, Edward
| b. 1600, London. Servant to Stephen Hopkins. 41st signer of Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. information unknown. Removed to Virginia |
MARGESON, Edmund
| b. information unknown. Stranger. 32nd signer of the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
MARTIN, Christopher
| b. 1575, Great Burstead, Essex. Stranger. Governor of Mayflower. 9th signer of Compact |
| m. information unknown, Marie Prower [who came on the Mayflower] |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
MARTIN, Mary (Prower)
| b. information unknown. Wife of Christopher Martin |
| d. 1620/21, Died the first winter |
MINTER, Desire
| b. ca. 1605. Daughter of William and Sarah Minter, Separatists of Leiden, Holland. Lived with John and Katherine Carver |
| m. Unknown |
| d. information unknown. Returned to England in 1625. |
MORE, Ellen
| bapt. Shipton, Shropshire, England, 1612. Orphan with Royal descent, put to Edward Winslow. |
| Unmarried |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
MORE, Jasper
| bapt. Shipton, Shropshire, England, 1613. Orphan with Royal descent put to John Carver. |
| d. 6 Dec 1621. Died the first winter |
*MORE, Richard
| bapt. Shipton, Shropshire, England, 1614. Orphan with Royal descent put to William Brewster. |
| m. (1) Plymouth 1636 Christian Hunt (or Hunter); b. England ca. 1615; d. in Salem 18 March 1676; Seven children |
| m. (2) in Salem 1676/86 Jane (maiden name unknown) Crumpton [b. ca. 1631; d. in Salem 1686]; No children |
| d. between 19 March 1693/4 and 20 April 1696, Salem, Massachusetts |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Two, JAMES CHILTON by Robert M. Sherman, 1978 |
MORE, Mary
| bapt. in Shipton, Shropshire, England, 1616. Orphan with Royal descent put to William Brewster. |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
*MULLINS, William
| b. prob. ca. 1572, poss. Dorking, Surrey. Shopkeeper, Adventurers' Company. Stranger 10th signer of the Compact | |
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| d. 1620, Died the first winter | |
*MULLINS, Alice
| b. information unknown. Wife of William Mullins |
| d. 1620/21, Died the first winter |
*MULLINS, Priscilla
| b. England 1600-1605. Daughter of William and Alice Mullins |
| m. Married John Alden [who also came on the Mayflower] prob. ca. 1623 in Plymouth |
| d. prob. Duxbury after 1650 |
MULLINS, Joseph
| b. England 1614. Son of William and Alice Mullins |
| d. 1621, Died the first winter |
*PRIEST, Degory
| b. in England ca. 1579. Hatter. Saint. 29th signer of Compact |
| m. in Leiden, Holland, 4 Nov 1611 Sarah (Allerton) Vincent
d. Plymouth bef. 24 Oct 1633; [sister of Isaac Allerton of the Mayflower]; Two children |
| d. Plymouth 1 Jan 1620/1, Died the first winter |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Eight, DEGORY PRIEST compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Margaret Harris Stover, CG; edited by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1994 |
PROWER, Solomon
| b. information unknown. Son from a previous marriage of Marie (Prower) Martin. Stranger. Did not sign Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1620, Died the first winter |
RIGDALE, John
| b. prob. England Stranger. 20th signer of the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1620/21, Died the first winter |
RIGDALE, Alice
| b. prob. England; wife of John Rigdale |
| d. Plymouth 1620/21, Died the first winter |
*ROGERS, Thomas
| b. prob. England. Camlet merchant. Saint. 18th signer of the Compact |
| m. Elsgen (information unknown), b. prob. England; d. Leiden, Holland, aft. 1622; Four children |
| d. 1620/21, Died the first winter |
*ROGERS, Joseph
| b. England or Holland abt. 1610. Son of Thomas Rogers. Too young to sign the Compact |
| m. information unknown. Hannah (Unknown maiden name); Seven children |
| d. Eastham bet. 2 and 15 Jan 1677/8; bur. Old Cove Burial Ground, Eastham. |
*SAMSON, Henry
| b. Henlow, Bedfordshire, England, 15 Jan 1603/4. Son of
James and Martha (Cooper) Samson. Stranger. Nephew of Agnes Tilley. He traveled and lived with the Tilley family. Too young to sign Compact. Purchaser, Constable, Planter |
| m. Plymouth 6 Feb 1635/6 Ann Plummer [d. aft. 24 Dec 1668]; Nine children |
| d. Duxbury 24 Dec 1684 in Duxbury, Massachusetts |
*SOULE, George
| b. about 1600, in England; servant under contract to Edward
Winslow; Purchaser. 35th signer of the Compact. |
| m. prob. Plymouth bef. 1626 prob. Mary Bucket/Becket; d. Duxbury Dec 1676; Nine children |
| d. Duxbury bef. 22 Jan 1679 |
*STANDISH, Miles
| b. perhaps on The Isle of Man, circa 1584. Stranger. 6th
signer of the Compact Captain, Professional soldier, Treasurer and Deputy Governor |
| m. (1) Rose [who came on the Mayflower]; no known children |
| m. (2) Plymouth bet. July 1623 and 24 Mar 1623/4 Barbara
(maiden name unknown)[who came on the Anne], b. prob. England; d. after 6 Oct 1659 (1673?); Seven children |
| d. Duxbury 3 Oct 1656 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Fourteen, MYLES STANDISH by Russell Warner, revised by Robert S. Wakefield, 1997 |
*STANDISH, Rose
| First wife of Myles Standish |
| d. Plymouth 29 Jan 1620/1, Died the first winter |
STORY, Elias
| b. information unknown. Servant to Edward Winslow. Did not sign the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. Plymouth 1621, Died the first winter |
THOMPSON, Edward
| b. information unknown. Servant to William White. Did not sign the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. Plymouth 1620, Died the first winter shortly after landing. |
TILLEY, Edward
| b. information unknown. Saint. 15th signer of the Compact |
| m. information unknown |
| d. Plymouth 1621, Died the first winter |
TILLEY, Anne
| b. information unknown. Wife of Edward Tilley |
| d. Plymouth 1621, Died the first winter |
*TILLEY, John
| b. prob. England. Silkworker; Stranger. 16th signer of the Compact |
| m. information unknown. Joan (Hurst) Rogers [who came on the Mayflower] |
| d. Plymouth 1621, Died the first winter |
*TILLEY, Joan (Hurst)
| b. information unknown. Wife |
| d. Plymouth 1621, Died the first winter |
*TILLEY, Elizabeth
| bapt. Henlow, Huntingdonshire, England 30 Aug 1607. Daughter of John and Joan Tilley. |
| m. Plymouth 25 Mar 1623 John Howland of the Mayflower. |
| d. Swansea 21/31 Dec 1687. Probably lived with the Carver family after her parents death. |
TINKER, Thomas
| b. information unknown. Leiden, Holland. Wood sawyer, Saint, 19th signer of the Compact. |
| m. information unknown |
| d. Plymouth , between Jan 11 and April 10, 1621. Died the first winter |
TINKER, Mrs. Thomas
| b. information unknown Wife |
| d. Plymouth, between Jan 11 and April 10, 1621 Died the first winter |
TINKER, Son
| b. information unknown, Leiden, Holland. Son. Too young to sign the Compact |
| m. Too young |
| d. Plymouth 1621, Died the first winter |
TREVOR, William
| b. information unknown, Sailor. Hired to stay one year; did not sign Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. Unknown Returned to England after one year. |
TURNER, John
| b. information unknown 22nd signer of the Compact. |
| m. information unknown |
| d. Died between Jan 11 and April 10, 1621 Died the first winter |
TURNER, Elder son
| b. information unknown Too young to sign the Compact. |
| d. Died between Jan 11 and April 10, 1621 Died the first winter |
TURNER, Younger son
| b. information unknown Too young to sign the Compact |
| d. Died between Jan 11 and April 10, 1621 Died the first winter |
UNNAMED FEMALE "Dorothy"
| b. information unknown, Maid servant to John Carver |
| m. prob. unmarried |
| d. Plymouth ca. Dec 1620/1 Died the first winter |
*WARREN, Richard
| b. prob. England ca.1580. Merchant. Stranger. 12th signer of Compact |
| m. April 14, 1610, Great Amwell, Hertford, England, to
Elizabeth Walker who came on the Anne [b. ca. 1580; d. Plymouth Oct 1673]; children: seven (five daughters came on the Anne with Elizabeth) |
| d. Plymouth 1628. |
*WHITE, William
| b. prob. England. Wealthy Separatist. 11th signer of Compact |
| m. Susanna (maiden name unknown) [who came on the Mayflower]; Two children |
| d. Plymouth 21 Feb1620/1 Died the first winter |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants),Volume Thirteen, WILLIAM WHITE by Robert M. Sherman, FASG, and Ruth W. Sherman, FASG, edited by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1997 |
*WHITE, Susanna
| b. probably England. Wife of William White |
| m.(1) information unknown. William White [of the Mayflower]; children: two |
| m. (2) 12 May 1621, Edward Winslow [of the Mayflower] She was the first Plymouth Colony bride. |
| d. 1680 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants),Volume Thirteen, WILLIAM WHITE by Robert M. Sherman, FASG, and Ruth W. Sherman, FASG, edited by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1997 |
*WHITE, Resolved
| b. England or Holland ca. 1615. Son of William and Susanna White. Too young to sign Compact |
| m. (1) Scituate 5 Nov 1640 Judith Vassall [b. England 1619; d. Marshfield; bur. 3 Apr 1675] |
| m. (2) Salem 5 Oct 1674 Abigail (maiden name unknown) Lord [ b. ca. 1606; d. Salem bet. 15 and 27 Jan 1682] |
| d. prob. living 19 Sep 1687 (1706?) |
*WHITE, Peregrine
| b. before the end of November 1620. Son of William and
Susanna White. Born on the Mayflower off Cape Cod [now Provincetown]. GSMD does not consider him a Mayflower passenger, since he was born after the arrival of the Mayflower. |
| m. bef. 6 Mar 1648/9 Sarah Bassett; d. Marshfield 22 Jan 1711; children: seven |
| d. Marshfield 20 or 22 Jul 1704 |
WILDER, Roger
| b. information unknown. Servant to John Carver. A boy too young to sign the Compact |
| m. Too young to marry |
| d. 1621 Died the first winter |
WILLIAMS, Thomas
| b. information unknown, Yarmouth, Norfolkshire. Stranger. 30th signer of the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. 1621. Died the first winter |
*WINSLOW, Edward
| b. Droitswich, Worcesterchire, England, 18 Oct 1595.
Printer. Saint. 3rd signer of the Compact. Undertaker, Governor of Plymouth, author of books; Son of Edward and Magalene (Oliver) Winslow. |
| m. (1) Leiden, Holland, after 12 May 1618 Elizabeth Barker [who came on the Mayflower]; no known children |
| m. (2) Plymouth 1621 Susanna (maiden name unknown) White
(first
marriage in Plymouth Colony), widow of William White, d. Plymouth bet. 18 Dec 1654 and 2 Jul 1675; Five children |
| d. at sea in the West Indies 8 May 1655 |
| Primary Source: Mayflower Families (published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants), Volume Five, Second Edition EDWARD WINSLOW by Ruth C. McGuyre and Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, 1991 |
WINSLOW, Elizabeth (Barker)
| b. poss. Chester or Chatham, England, ca. 1597. First wife of Edward Winslow of the Mayflower. |
| d. Plymouth 24 Mar 1620/1, Died the first winter |
WINSLOW, Gilbert
| b. Droitswich, Worcestershire, England 1600. Brother to Edward Winslow. 31st signer of the Compact |
| m. Unknown |
| d. information unknown. Returned to England with no know colonial ancestors |
There were one hundred and two passengers (plus the crew) on the Mayflower.
Only forty-one males who were free agents, signed the
Compact on November 11, 1620, in Provincetown Harbor.
The intent
of the Compact was to assure that all would band together and submit to
majority rule.
The eighteen women on board did not have voting rights. That
prevented the following from signing: Katherine Carver, Marie Martin, Elizabeth Baker
Winslow, Dorothy May Bradford,
Mary Norris Allerton, Rose Standish, Alice Mullins, Susanna White,
Elizabeth Fisher Hopkins, Elinor Billington, Agnes Cooper Tilley, Joan Hurst Rogers, Mrs. Thomas
Tinker, Alice Rigdale, Susanna Chilton, Ann Fuller, Sarah Eaton and
Sarah Priest.
Most, but not all of the sailors or servants were ineligible to sign the Compact. They were Roger Wilder, an unmarried seaman who died a few days after landing; William Latham, a teenage servant to John Carver, who returned to England about 1640; William Butten, a servant who died on the voyage; John Langermore and Solomon Prower, both servants to Christopher Martin; Robert Carter, servant to William Mullins, who died the first winter; Elias Storey, an unmarried seaman; and John Hooke, a young man who died soon after arrival.
Among the thirty-three children on board were Jasper More, age 7, who died in December 1620; Richard More, age 6; Ellen More, "a little girl" who died the first winter; Bartholomew Allerton, age 8; Remember Allerton, age 6; Mary Allerton, age 4; Mary Chilton, age 13; Samuel Eaton, "a suckling child"; Constance Hopkins, age 11; Oceanus Hopkins, born at sea; Henry Samson, age uncertain; John Billington, age 15; Francis Billington, age 14; Elizabeth Rogers, age 13; John Cooke, age 10; Resolved White, age 5; and Peregrine White, born in Provincetown Harbor.
These non-signers had their fates. Dorothy Bradford, falling off the Mayflower while her husband was away exploring in the shallop, drowned in Provincetown Harbor. She never saw Plymouth. Peregrine White, born in Provincetown Harbor in December 1620, the first English child born in New England, who lived to experience the eighteenth century, dying in 1704. Richard More died in 1696 in Salem, the only Mayflower passenger whose grave is marked by the stone set at his burial. (It was discovered in 1970 that Richard and his siblings were no mere waifs on the Mayflower, as had been supposed, but royally descended). Mary Allerton, who married Thomas Cushman, the successor to William Brewster as Ruling Elder of the Plymouth Church, lived until December of 1699, the longest of all Mayflower passengers.
Signers
that are not highlighted did not leave any known colonial descendants, mostly due
to their untimely death in those difficult early years.
Moses
Fletcher left his wife and children in Leiden and died shortly after
arrival. She remarried with none of their children recorded as
emigrating to the colonies.
I think it is interesting to note that 18 out of 41 signers died shortly after arrival with most of the signers who died shortly after arrival being later signers of the Compact.
Notice that 13 our of 20, (about 2/3) of the later signers died within the first year, with only 5 out of 20 (1/4) of the early Compact signers passing shortly after arrival.
Unfortunately,
almost half of the Pilgrims died with the first year of arrival at the
Plymouth colony, mostly the women and children living on the Mayflower.
While the men were out hunting, exploring, and constructing their homes, the women and children remained in close quarters on the ship anchored in the harbor.
There is somewhat of an order to the signatures on the Mayflower Compact as the more prominent names appear to be earlier on the list with a few notable exceptions.| 1. Mr. John Carver | 15.Edward Tilley | 29.Degory Priest |
| 2. William Bradford | 16.John Tilley | 30.Thomas Williams |
| 3. Mr. Edward Winslow | 17.Francis Cooke | 31.Gilbert Winslow |
| 4. Mr. William Brewster | 18.Thomas Rogers | 32.Edmund Margesson |
| 5. Mr. Isaac Allerton | 19.Thomas Tinker | 33.Peter Brown |
| 6. Capt. Myles Standish | 20.John Rigsdale | 34.Richard Briterige |
| 7. John Alden | 21.Edward Fuller | 35.George Soule |
| 8. Mr. Samuel Fuller | 22.John Turner | 36.Richard Clarke |
| 9. Mr. Christopher Martin | 23.Francis Eaton | 37.Richard Gardiner |
| 10.Mr. William Mullins | 24.James Chilton | 38.John Allerton |
| 11.Mr. William White | 25.John Crackston | 39.Thomas English |
| 12.Mr. Richard Warren | 26.John Billington | 40.Edward Dotey |
| 13.Mr. John Howland | 27.Moses Fletcher | 41.Edward Leister |
| 14.Stephen Hopkins | 28.John Goodman |

This is the "Mayflower Compact" as written by Mayflower passenger
William Bradford
into his manuscript History of Plymouth Plantation about 1630.
Biographies of all 23 Mayflower Compact signers with colonial descendants.
These biographies were written by junior members of the GSMD.
There are six additional GSMD authorized links. The first ones are to children Richard More and Henry Samson,
who traveled on the Mayflower without their parents, but were not old enough to sign the Compact and left descendants.
There is a link to Moses Fletcher who did not leave any known colonial descendants, but is still listed on the role of GSMD.
Additionally GSMD recently authorized descent from three wives of prominent families who traveled on the Mayflower.
The original Plymouth Plantation or Mayflower "Pilgrims".
102 Passengers and Crew that remained in Plymouth after the departure of the Mayflower.
This list is from the superb website Mayflowerhistory.com. Clicking on a name will take you to an accurate biography of the passenger from the site.
A plus (•) before a name indicates a a spouse or child of the related passenger listed above the name.
The Fortune
The ship Fortune arrived at Plymouth on November 9, 1621, just a few weeks after the "First Thanksgiving". This passenger list is based on the 1623 Division of Land, compiled by Charles Edward Banks in Planters of the Commonwealth, and by the information found in Eugene Aubrey Stratton's Plymouth Colony: Its History and its People, 1620-1691.
| John Adams William & Elizabeth Basset William Beale Jonathan Brewster Clement Briggs Edward Bumpas John Cannon William Conner Robert Cushman Thomas Cushman (Son) Philipe de la Noye Steven Deane Thomas Flavell & son William and Martha Ford with William, John & Martha |
Robert Hickes William Hilton Bennet Morgan Thomas Morton Austin Nicolas William Palmer William Palmer (son) William Pitt Thomas Prence Moses Simonson Hugh Statie James Steward William Tench John Winslow William Wright |
Ann & Little James
"The vessels parted company at sea; the ANN arrived the latter part of June, and the LITTLE JAMES some week or ten days later; part of the number were the wives and children of persons already in the Colony The ship Anne arrived in Plymouth in July, 1623 accompanied by the Little James, bringing new settlers along with many of the wives and children that had been left behind in Leyden when the Mayflower departed in 1620."
Anthony Annabal, |
Stephen Tracy |