Captain
Myles
"Miles"
Standish
Born about in England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Rose (Unknown) Standish
— married
about 1611 (to 29 Jan 1621) in England
Husband of
Barbara (Unknown) Standish
— married
1623 in Plymouth Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Charles Standish, Alexander Standish, John Standish, Myles Standish Jr., Lora Standish, Josias Standish and Charles Standish
Died
at about age 72
in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
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Biography
Captain Myles Standish was the commander of the Plymouth Colony protective forces throughout his lifetime, having traveled to the colony upon the Mayflower.[1][2]
Uncertain Origin
Miles Standish's origin and parents are unknown.[3] Competing theories about his birth have him born in either Lancashire, England, or the Isle of Man.[4]
Robert C. Anderson estimates his birth date about 1593, based on the date of his first marriage.[3] Caleb Johnson, Mayflower Historian, places his birth date closer to 1587, likely somewhere in Lancashire, England.[2]
Immigration
Captain Myles Standish arrived in the New World upon Mayflower in 1620, hired as a military commander and defender of the Plymouth Colony.[1] He was joined by his wife Rose, who died shortly after their arrival. Known as Captain Shrimpe due to his diminutive stature.[1]
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Marriages
Miles married twice.[2]
- He first married by around 1618/9, to Rose Unknown.[3][2] She died on 29 January 1620/1 at Plymouth.[3]
- He married by 1623/4 to Barbara Unknown.[3][2] She died after 6 October 1659.[3]
"Captain Standish his wife dyed in the first sickness and he maried againe, and hath 4 sones liveing, and some are dead" (Bradford's account)[5]
Children
There is no evidence of Myles having surviving children from his marriage to Rose.[6] By his second wife Barbara there were seven children:
- Charles was born in 1624. He died between May 22, 1627 and 1635.[2]
- Alexander was born about 1626.[2] He married (1) Sarah Alden by about 1660 and had eight children. She died before June 13, 1688. He married (2) Desire (Doty) (Sherman) Holmes by 1689 and had three children. He died on July 6, 1702. She died on January 22, 1731, in Marshfield.
- John was born about 1627.[2] He died unmarried by 1650. There is no further record.
- Myles was born about 1629.[2] He married Sarah Winslow on July 19, 1660, in Boston, but there were no recorded children. He died at sea after March 20, 1661.
- Lora was born about 1631.[2] She died by March 7, 1655/6, unmarried.
- Josias was born about 1633.[2] He married (1) Mary Dingley on December 19, 1654, in Marshfield. She died on July 1, 1655, in Duxbury. He married (2) Sarah Allen after 1655 and had eight children. He died in Preston, CT on March 19, 1690. She died after September 16, 1690.
- Charles, died after 1656 probably unmarried.[2]
Disputed Wife and Other Family
The profiles for John Standish and Christian Lace have not been connected as parents (no evidence).
Myles' wife Rose's maiden name is not known. She may have come from the Isle of Man, and some have assumed her surname was " Allen."
Many Standish descendants believe Barbara was the sister of Rose Standish and probably brought his son Thomas Standish with her from England. Thomas Standish also could have been the child of an earlier marriage as little is known of Capt Myles' earlier life except that he was a professional military man who served in England and on the continent before being hired by the Plymouth Bay Company. However, there is no evidence of Myles having a son Thomas, and Thomas is not one of the children accepted by the Mayflower Society. In addition, there is no evidence of Barbara's last name. The profile for Thomas Standish has been disconnected as a son.
Captain Standish
Myles served in Queen Elizabeth I's army in Holland, and it was there that he met John Robinson and Pilgrims.[2] They hired him to head their military endeavors.[2] He was very involved in helping scout and choose the spot for the Plymouth Colony.[2]
Standish signed the Mayflower Compact 11 November 1620.[7]
Myles served the Plymouth Colony as commander and adviser of their military forces.[1] He was known for his preemptive style, which often caused skirmishes with the natives.[1] He was known for his courage and military skill, but also for some of his more brutal tactics.[1] Though he worked to protect the Plymouth Colony most of his life, there is no evidence that he was ever part of the Puritan Church which founded the colony.[1]
Death and Legacy
Miles died on October 3, 1656, likely of kidney stones and after much suffering,[3] in Duxbury, Plymouth Colony.[2] He was buried at Chestnut Street at Pilgrim Byway, Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts[8]
His will is dated 7 March 1655 and exhibited in Plymouth Court on 4(?) May 1657. He mentions his wife Barbara, and his sons, Alexander, Myles, Josiah, and Charles. His inventory was exhibited on 4 May 1657 on the oath of Mrs. Barbara Standish.[9]
Many towns and structures memorialize Standish, being named after him, and he is depicted in the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish."[1]
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Research Notes
DNA
Y-DNA Results FT276288[10] """Previous Y-STR testing through the Mayflower Societyand the Standish surname DNA project has suggested that the Standish lineage belongs to Y-DNA haplogroup I (defined by the marker M170, among others); further, one Standish kit has been further classified as I-L38 based on Y-STR results. NGS/WGS Results Two patrilineal (all male) descendants of Myles Standish have taken the Big Y-700 test. These two members descend from the two sons of Myles who left descendants (Alexander & Josiah) and since they match each other, we are confident this is the Haplogroup of Myles Standish. In addition, other Standish's have done DNA testing, with some of them belonging to the R Haplogroup (so are not related to Myles Standish) while others document a close relationship to Myles Standish (falling into clades immediately above the Myles FT276288 clade). The Myles Standish family results fall under: I-M170>P215>CTS2257>L460>P214>S2525>S2519>S2497>L38>S2606>FGC29656>BY1183>Y18919>S4556>BY14000>FT277048>FT276288
For more information see:
Standish Y-DNA YouTube presentation by Mike Terry[11]
Myles Standish is Notable.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Wikipedia contributors, "Myles Standish," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Standish (accessed November 20, 2017).
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 MayflowerHistory.com, "Myles Standish" Archive.org captured 21 Feb 2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Anderson, Robert Charles, (1995) "Miles Standish," Featured name. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. NEHGS AmericanAncestors.org (Volumes I-III, Page 1741).
- ↑ Goodrich, Merton Taylor. "The Children and Grandchildren of Capt. Myles Standish" in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: NEHGS, 1933, vol. 87, pp. 152-160. AmericanAncestors.org($).
- ↑ The information concerning the deaths Standish's wife was been extracted from Thomas Prince's A Chronological History of New-England, in the Form of Annals (Boston, N.E., 1736; Edinburgh Private printing, 1887-1888), 5 vols. In volume 3, Prince lists at intervals extracts from "A Register of Governor Bradford's in his own hand, recording some of the first deaths, marriages and punishments at Plymouth." According to Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), p. 1809, this register has subsequently been lost.
- ↑ Warner, Russell L. (edited by Wakefield, Robert S, FASG), Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol. 14. Myles Standish, Boston, Mass., General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2007
- ↑ Morton, Nathaniel. New England's memorial. (Boston: Congregational board of publication, 1855) Originally published 1669.p. 26 Note: The original compact is gone. Morton furnished the earliest known list 1669 facsimile
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #971 "Myles Standish - American Colonist"
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-V33N : 6 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 170 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Page 37-40
- ↑ MayflowerDNA.org wiki Y-DNA Profile for Standish family
- ↑ Permission granted to post this link
- The Inventory of his estate is Here.
- A transcript of Myles Standish's Will Here.
- Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1856) p. 448 "Captin Myles Standish, and Rose, his wife." p. 452 "Captain Standish his wiſe dyed in the first sicknes, and he maried againe, and hath 4. Sones liveing, and some are dead."
- Bradford, William, 1590-1657. Of Plimoth Plantation: manuscript, 1630-1650. State Library of Massachusetts "List of Mayflower Passengers." In Bradford's Hand.
- Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford and Williams, Alicia Crane, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 16 Part 1 of 3, John Alden, Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002
- Mayflower 2020: Myles Standish c.1593-1656
- Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620-1691, Eugene Aubrey Stratton, FASG, (Salt Lake City, UT : Ancestry Pub., c1986.). E A Stratton was the former Historian General of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants
- Prince, Thomas, A Chronological History of New-England in the form ... v. 1-5. (Boston, N. E., 1736)... Priv. print., 1887-88. HathiTrust.org.
- Torrey, Clarence Almon, "New England Marriages, Prior to 1700", Published by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, MD Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 84-81867 Copyright 1985, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, Page 700.
- Nickname: Made in America by Bill Bryson referring to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Wagenecht p 105.
- "Treaty with The Wampanoag ~ March 22/April 1, 1621 & September 13, 1621" (Archived via the Wayback Machine)
- Winsor, Justin. Abstracts of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1851) Vol. 5, Page 335-8: Will and Inventory.
- James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Appletons’ Cyclopædia of American Biography (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1887), p. 643.
- "Myles Standish. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations," Vol. IV, pub. 1997. pg. 51, compiled by Russell Lewis Warner, GRS, 1912-1980.
- “Myles Standish and the Lost Colony of Massachusetts,” New England Historical Society (blog), March 13, 2021.
- MayflowerDNA.org wiki and Y-DNA Profile for Standish family
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- Did Myles Standish Have a Son Thomas? Oct 24, 2013.
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Native American Tribe Wants Boston University To Change Name Of Myles Standish Dorm, https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-university-myles-standish-hall-dorm-name-change-massachusett-tribe-at-ponkapoag/
2. Book, The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59216
3. Book, The Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 4 entries about Capt. Myles Standish, see Link- https://archive.org/details/foundersmassach01smitgoog/page/n8/mode/2up?q=Standish
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-Pg.16 Multiple entries that include transfers either to or from Capt Myles Standish
- Using "CTRL F" I was able to search and found a total of 47 entries for Standish, Not sure how many other entries maybe in this book, but maybe worth the download, it is free.
https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QadbKV7bNs2_jR0eaIFfX7z7-nnYLSi_H5gI4axaWRagT2LynIKThvM85eGOstYRHG__Y1foEeXb7zqxJ6GSyVy6NhQVGi9bIdiBblmbUvwrPyhqaqQ-xByTSoUEZV8HNUfKXR2kqKYyobs5wqKu235euluwSYJizBCcDWT6IPXkkM82JuBES7AH3TiXibTqQgJYiFWBMMwo5eoAKy2GMv0pHiQF7ZGFhmxxglloO5Q3uU6leG_bE5Rteuq-_Z_k-SGBWKWZ6ytHCy2rXXgJ66Ilbu8NjS7b1eokFTxP_lmMFymVeGQ
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We are featuring this profile in the Connection Finder this week. Between now and Wednesday is a good time to take a look at the sources and biography to see if there are updates and improvements that need made, especially those that will bring it up to WikiTree Style Guide standards. We know it's short notice, so don't fret too much. Just do what you can.
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"Research by Helen Moorwood published in Lancashire History Quarterly beginning in 1999 shakes up things considerably. For one, she states that the reference in Myles’ will to the Isle of Man (the starting point for the belief in Myles’ Manx origins) was in fact a different (and much smaller) Isle of Man located in Lancashire County. And while there is a curious dearth of documentation concerning Myles’ father and paternal grandfather (which Moorwood suspects is due to the conspiracy to keep Myles from his rightful inheritance as mentioned in Myles’ will), she shows that there can be little doubt as to the identity of Myles’ great-grandfather (Alexander Standish) and, subsequently, his descent from both the Standishes of Duxbury and the Standishes of Standish."
3. The Research of Helen Moorwood.
My initial impression is that the case is not proven, however, there is a lot of information here that requires a more careful review than me skimming through it for 15 minutes.
Name: Rose Standish [Rose Handley] Birth Date: 1580 Volume: 166 Page Number: 302 Reference: McCutcheon (Cutcheon) fam. Recds. And allied fams. By Flor. (McCutcheon) McKee. Grand Rapids, 1931. (316, 46p.):316 Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 25 Jul 1923, 819; 1 Aug1923, 827; 12 Aug 1925, 3287
We're featuring Myles as our Example Profile of the Week next week. If any of you want to make some tweaks, add something to his bio, or maybe a few more inline citations, we'd appreciate it. It looks to be in pretty good shape right now, but it's always nice when these profiles really shine.
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Thank you, :-)
Mary was a truly warm enthusiastic intellectual lady who contributed so much to my Ray & Ormond family. Mary was my personal inspiration and guide in almost all of my genealogy and family research. I will mention one of her finest historic collaborations. Mary was a great researcher & historian of Gloucester MA, and surrounding Cape Ann sites. With the Archives Committee, She authored and published in 2002, "Gloucester Massachusetts, Historical Timeline, 1000-1999". This written heritage is detailed record from first settlers 1623. So many sources are compiled here, & inconsistencies are pointed out. but it has source material just as written in over 4400 entries. Marty
Consolidated repeated Source references.
Began clean up of imported Sources to cite original artifacts versus imported Ancestry references.
Deleted a few extra line feeds on the Profile page.
Will continue to improve Source reference citations.
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Gary Boyd Roberts
Per "New England Marriages, Prior to 1700", by Clarence Almon Torrey Published by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, MD Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 84-81867 Copyright 1985, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA Page 700
Two entries of Marriage for this Myles Standish:
"STANDISH, Myles (1584-1656) & 1/wf Rose __?__ (-1621); b 1620; Plymouth"
"STANDISH, Myles (1584-1656) & 2/wf Barbara [ALLEN]? (-1659+); betw Jul 1623 & 3 Apr 1624; Plymouth/Duxbury"
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 10:10 PM To: [email address removed] Subject: Re: Findagrave - Short Bio for Myles Standish
Jim,
You have my permission to add the biography to WikiTree, provided it is offered free of any charges to others. If others have to pay to join WikiTree, then permission is not granted. You may add the biography to your personal Family Tree collection for free since you are related to Miles Standish.
Respectfully,
Morgan Benson
In a message dated 1/6/2015 10:34:02 P.M. Alaskan Standard Time, [email address removed] writes: Hello Kit and Morgan Benson,
My name is James Albert Jim McCullough, a member of Find A Grave (Find A Grave #48314903), and Im also a user member of both Ancestry.com, and of WiKiTree.com. Im a descendent of Miles Standish and perhaps needless to say I was very impressed with the subject Bio youve written.
Im writing to ask if it would be OK with you if your biography for Miles Standish (Find A Grave Memorial# 971) were to be posted on WiKiTree.com, specifically on Miles Standishs Profile page ( http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Standish-112)?
I would ensure credit is included per your instructions, i.e. : "© Morgan and Kit Benson on Find A Grave".