G2G: Who was the last full-blooded Mayflower descendant?

Question

Mary Allerton was said to be the last surviving Mayflower passenger when she died in 1699, but who was the last person whose parents, grandparents, and possibly great-grandparents (living in 1620) were all Mayflower passengers or descended entirely from Mayflower passengers?

Comments

Would be interesting to see if this has ever been figured out. I don't think it has.  So you are asking for the last person who had only direct Mayflower passenger descendants as their ancestors? I would think it should be in the 1700s somewhere.

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I ask for other contenders after a quick estimate based on the relatively few female Mayflower passengers and tracing their daughters.  I was surprised to find only two marriages among the passengers who were childless at the time of the voyage.  John Alden and Priscilla Mullins are the best known, while John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley are mentioned less frequently.  All of the other women's daughters seem to have married men who arrived later, although some women, like John Carver's maidservant, Dorothy, seem relatively poorly documented.  The death of John and Priscilla's eldest daughter, Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie, was widely recognized in 1717, but her sister, Rebecca (Alden) Delano, died five years later, and the youngest Howland child, Isaac, died 9 March 1724.

It occurs to me that part of the Separatists problem with the Church of England may have been intolerance of the church's implied support of inbreeding of the British Royal Family and other European royalty.  Such a philosophy might contribute to the limited intermarriage among descendants of Mayflower passengers.  It might also explain the early rejection of their Algonquin-speaking neighbors who emphasized tribal bonds by marrying cousins, and who still base tribal membership on percentages of ancestors with tribal affiliation.

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Joseph Rogers, son of Thomas Rogers was childless at the time of the Mayflower voyage.After his father Thomas died the first winter making him an orphan he may have lived with William Bradford before he married Hannah with whom he had at least one son James who married Mary Paine with whom he had at least one son again James who married Susanna Tracy with whom he had yet another Jamees who married Hannah Godfrey in 1730 with whom he had a son Jonathan who married Hannah Mayo in 1776 with whom he had a son named Timothy who married Reliance Cobb in 1810 with whom he had a son named Albert Cobb who married Julia A. F. Small in 1841 with whom he had a son named Timothy Otis who married Harriet Matilda Nickerson in 1883 with whom he had a son named Frederick Kimball who married Merrill Gertrude McKinnon in 1910 with whom he had a son named Otis Wendell who married Doris May Clark in 1937 with whom he had a son named Frederick WendellRogers (still living).

Answer 1

I know that Joseph Rogers, son of Thomas Rogers both sailed on the Mayflower. Although Thomas died the first winter his son Joseph carried the name on. I am not certain if Joseph or his descendants  married close relatives or native Americans but here is the Lineage that GSMD accepted down to me if that helps to answer the original question.Joseph, his son Thomas, his son James,his son James, his son James,his son Jonathan, his son Timothy, his son Albert Cobb, his sonTimothy Otis, his son Frederick Kimball, his son Otis Wendell, his son (me) Frederick Wendell Rogers

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I think he's asking for original Mayflower passengers, or their children who married Mayflower Passengers/descendants; and their children also married Mayflower descendants, on down the line so that everyone would have both a mother and a father who descended from a Mayflower Mother & Father, etc.  I don't think it would extend beyond the 1700s.

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OK Ken but Joseph was one of the original Mayflower passengers along with his father Thomas. I do not know if he married any other original Mayflower passengers.

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I apologize that my question was not better explained.  If I may use your candidate as an example, Thomas Rogers was a Mayflower passenger, while his wife Alice was not, because she remained in Holland when Mayflower sailed. Their son, Joseph, would have been half-Mayflower ancestry had he remained with his mother, but is a Mayflower passenger because he sailed with his father.  Joseph's son, James would be half-Mayflower from his father, and a full-blooded Mayflower descendant if his mother, Hannah, had sailed aboard the Mayflower or been born to parents who sailed aboard the Mayflower.  Hannah, however, is unfortunately among the many early colonial women whose ancestry is uncertain, and is generally assumed to have arrived later descended from parents who were not Mayflower passengers. Even had Hannah been a Mayflower descendant, James wife, Mary Paine, was one-quarter Mayflower ancestry from her maternal grandmother, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, so their son James would be 5/8 Mayflower ancestry if Hannah was a Mayflower descendant or only 3/8 Mayflower ancestry if Hannah was not.

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Thank you for the clarification Al.You are correct as Alice Cosford never traveled to America as far as we know.I think where my confusion may have been comes from my understanding of Joseph's full Mayflower ancestry while his brother John who did not remain in Holland came here probably around 1630 with other separatists. He lived in Duxbury. Joseph lived in Duxbury for a time. He ran a ferry over the Jones River. He removed to Eastham where he is buried and where he as a Lt. drilled the militia there. So the question that remains for me is how would John 's ancestry be understood given that both his father Thomas and brother Joseph were full Mayflower descendants.You rightly point out that we do not know Hannah's surname nor do we know from whence she came. Anyway the Rogers name was carried down to us by both Joseph and his brother John.The more research I do the more interesting and intriguing it gets. I have discovered that not only do I have Rogers ancestry I also can claim descendancy from William and Mary Brewster, Stephen, Constance and Giles Hopkins,John Howland,John Tilley, Joan Hurst and sone other indirect ancestors. I am not certain about my maternal ancestry but I have done a Big-Y Test. I am humbled to know how my family fits into our forebears.