The Mayflower and Thanksgiving this year
During my dive into my genealogy, I discovered we had many ancestors on the Mayflower. So this year, for Thanksgiving this year will be a bit more special for me and my family.
This blog post will honor our ancestors who came on the Mayflower and later on the Mayflower migration.
So Who are they
John Tilley 1571–1621 Birth 15 DECEMBER 1571 • Bedfordshire, England, Death 11 JANUARY 1621 • Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States of America 11th Great Grand Father
John’s wife – Joan Hurst 1568–1621 Birth 13 MARCH 1568 • Henlow, Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority, Bedfordshire, England Death ABT. JAN 1621 • Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA 11th Great Grand Mother
Elizabeth Tilley their daughter also on the boat – 1607–1687 Birth 30 AUGUST 1607 • Henlow, Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority, Bedfordshire, England Death 21 DECEMBER 1687 • Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States of America 10th Great Grand Mother
John Howland 1602–1672 Birth 1602 • Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England, Death 23 FEB 1672/3 • Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA 10th Great Grand Father
About John Howland – He was a Mack Daddy!
John married Elizabeth and had many children. Here is his biography. An English indentured servant who accompanied the English Separatists and other passengers when they left England on the Mayflower to settle in Plymouth Colony. In later years, he was an executive assistant and personal secretary to Governor John Carver.
In 1620 he signed the Mayflower Compact and helped found the colony. During his service to Governor Carver in 1621, Howland assisted in the making of a treaty with the Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag. In 1626, he was a freeman and one of eight settlers who agreed to assume the colony’s debt to its investors in exchange for a monopoly on the fur trade. He was elected deputy to the Plymouth General Court in 1641 and held the position until 1655, and again in 1658.
About Desire Howland
We are descended from Desire Howland, 1624–1683, Birth 1624 OR 1625 • Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA ,Death 13 OCT 1683 • Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA She is our 9th Great Grand Mother. She married John Gorham 1620–1676, who was in the Mayflower migration.
Thomas Rogers and Son Joseph
Thomas Rogers 1571–1621, Birth ABT 1571 • Watford, Northamptonshire, England, Death 1621 • Massachussetts 10th Great Grand Father
Joseph Rogers 1602-1678, Birth 23 JANUARY 1602 • Watford, Northamptonshire, England, Death JAN 1677/8 • Eastham, Barnstable, MA 9th Great Grand Father
They were separatist! The Separatist passengers of the Mayflower were members of the English Separatist Church, a Puritan faction, who sought religious freedom in America.
Those who died the first year
Forty-five of the 102 Mayflower passengers died in the winter of 1620–21, and the Mayflower colonists suffered greatly during their first winter in the New World from lack of shelter, scurvy, and general conditions on board ship. They were buried on Cole’s Hill.
Edmund Margesson (bef. 1599 – 1621) His son came later on the Mayflower migration. 12th great-grandfather. His son Richard 11th great-grandfather came several years later. Also to make things complicated he had a grand daughter in England who came later. Anne Netherton Ellis Armistead 1610–1678, Birth 1610 • Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England, Death 4 DECEMBER 1678 • Elizabeth City, York, Virginia! Our 10th Great Grand Mother.
Those in the Later Mayflower Migration
John Edmund Phinney 1604–1702, Birth 15 MARCH 1604 • Lenton, Nottingham Unitary Authority, Nottinghamshire, England, Death 1702 • Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
Married couple 9th Great Grand parents.
Mary Clarke 1611–1683, Birth 14 August 1611 • Norwich, Norfolk, England, Death 8 OCTOBER 1683 • Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Bernard Lombard, 1608–1668, Birth 1608 • Thorncombe, Dorset, England, Death 20 FEBRUARY 1668 • Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Summary The Mayflower and Thanksgiving this year
There maybe one more family that I found away back. I could not find them today. That is nine ancestors on the Mayflower and at least four in the Mayflower Migration. I am doing this per a conversation I had with Lynne where I would write up for the family my research. Note – these are all from the Elliott line. For those of you’ll that have children. There is a Mayflower scholarship fund for college! Also realize we have native American ancestors via Virginia.
Happy Thanksgiving!