G2G: Question of the Week: Do you have any ancestors who were on the Mayflower or who were Puritans?

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I have three ancestral lines to Hope Howland and John Chipman through their daughters Hannah (Chipman) Huckins and Ruth (Chipman) Crocker.

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Hello all, I am a descendant of Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower Rock Star!) both children Constance and Giles, along with Francis and Hester Cooke, Richard and Elizabeth Warren, and William Brewster. Edward Winslow is a great uncle.

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Yes, one (Richard Warren) whose descendants I know about and another possible (Chilton) whom I have not studied.  Probably more as I have many New England branches to my family tree.

I have one branch of my family that left Massachusetts for Rhode Island to get away from the Puritans.  Anyone interested in women's rights should take a close look at Massachusetts v. Rhode Island in the mid to late 17th Century in that respect.  I recall reading (no source just now) that c. 1690 Rhode Island was the only place on the face of the earth in which women had something close to the rights they have in 21st C. America.

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I'm also a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, his daughter Constance, and her daughter, Mary.

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I have many Quakers (Blackburns) and Puritans too!! Who were your Quakers?

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My Quakers arrived in Pennsylvania with William Penn.  They are Heacocks, Sharples, Pyles, Lewis, Taylor & John.

My Puritan ancestors were Bradleys, who first arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635.  They settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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Blackburn family here

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Yes, Five, Three signed Compact. John Chilton, his wife & Daughter, Mary, Francis Eaton & Francis Cooke. (& a wife of Cooke or Eaton, can't remember which)

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Well we are closely related then. My GG Francis Cooke as well. There are so many great family one never knows where to start. On my Mothers side are Ellis,Swift,Washburn,Willmarth and Mitchell’s   Also have to research Tilly and Howland. It is an endless task!!

Jan

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Richard Warren on the Mayflower is a direct ancestor

Answer 1

Among many others, I am a direct descendant of both Roger Williams and Rev. John Cotton. Wonder what they would think if they knew they were in-laws!

Answer 2

Lots of Puritans. 2 aunts & 1 uncle married Mayflower passengers. Controversial Peter Browne descendant, but alas, a possible son named Peter Browne is not recognized.

Answer 3

Yes, Thomas and Joseph Rogers for whom I have GSMD certificates as well as Stephen,Giles and Constance Hopkins, Elizabeth Tilley, William and Mary Brewster,John Howland, John Tilley, Joan Hurst and Degory Priest, Wrestling and Love Brewster.

Answer 4

I have twelve Mayflower passengers as direct ancestors - Billington, Brewster, Eaton, Howland, and Tilley. Six of my seven ancestral lines to these go through my grandmother whose maiden name - Durkee - is in the John Howland silver book. Most of my immigrant ancestors (that I have traced) came during the Great Migration 1620 to 1640, the Jewett brothers in 1638 to Rowley, MA.

Answer 5

I have ancestors form the Mayflower on my mom's side, but don't have the info with me so am not sure who they are. When I started digging into family history, however, I was surprised to discover and verify that on my dad's side, we are descended from Thomas and Joseph Rogers.

Answer 6

Yes! I have several Puritan ancestors - most of them settled in the areas surrounding Plymouth, MA.

Answer 7

George Soule was my 10th g-grandfather.

Answer 8

This looks like an old question...but I have over 500 ancestors in America before 1700, many Puritans, many in Virginia and Maryland.  I have their names, port they landed at, where they came from and ship they sailed on listed.

As for Mayflower:

Isaac and Mary Allerton -  10th G-Grandparents, daughter Mary is 9th Great Grandmother.

Francis Eaton - 10th G-grandfather

Thomas Rogers - 12th G-grandfather

John Alden - 12th G-grandfather

Priscilla Mullins Alden - 12th G-grandmother

Richard Warren - 12th G-grandfather

William Mullins - 13th G -grandfather

Alice Mullins - 13th....perchance she is a stepmother? research is not definitive on her relationship, not that I could find.

Linda Boddy

Answer 9

I think I've answered this same question on here before but Edward Doty is my 7th great grandfather,  Edward was the indentured servant of the Stephen Hopkins family and he tutored the Hopkins children on the voyage to America.

Answer 10

Yes I do - Edward Fuller - likely more, but I haven't been able to research much of the Mayflower as of yet.

Answer 11

John Alden and Priscilla Mullins are my 13th great grandparents through son Joseph.

Answer 12

I have 5 Mayflower ancestors-none proven to standard yet.  They are: James Chilton, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Stephen Hopkins, and Richard Warren.  All are related to me through the marriage of Hosea Washburn and Hannah Doten in Dec 1784.

Answer 13

John Alden and Priscilla Mullins are my 10th great grandparents through their son Joseph.

Answer 14

I am not, but my husband is 12th generation from Richard Warren, and 12th generation from Gov. William Bradford.

Answer 15

Reverend Thomas Hooker is my 10th great grandfather.

Answer 16

Yes, Thomas Rogers, who sailed on the Mayflower, is my 10th great grandfather.

Answer 17

To date we have discovered that I am a direct descendants of eleven Mayflower passengers. The eleven include: John and Priscilla Alden; Isaac and Mary Allerton, and their daughter Mary; William Mullins; Henry Samson; Richard Warren; William and Susanna White, and their son Resolved.

Answer 18

Descended from William White & Susanna Jackson, through Resolved White, Sarah Hayward, David Allen, Samuel Allen, Elizabeth Allen, Abraham Osborn, Mary Osborn, Harriette Morford, etc.  Curiously, the Mayflower Society does NOT recognize this line of descent, which is frustrating to say the least.

Answer 19

I'm descended from 22 Mayflower passengers:

William Brewster, Mary (Unknown) Brewster, Love Brewster, William Mullins, Alice (Unknown) Mullins, Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, John Alden, Richard Warren, John Tilley, John Howland, Joan Hurst, James Chilton, Mrs. (Unkown) Chilton, Mary Chilton, Susanna Jackson, William White, Peregrine White, Elizabeth Tilley, Francis Cooke, Stephen Hopkins, Elizabeth Fisher, and Edward Doty.

Answer 20

All 3 are11th great-grandparents, I descend from Richard Warren, and John and Elinor Billington.