This is a loosely constructed list to document and keep track of a few of the various families that contributed to establishing the Plymouth Colony and the Sandwich/Barnstable area of Massachusetts. I had known of a couple of ancestors that I had that contributed to establishing the the Plymouth Colony,after doing a YDNA test in December of 2023 I found a few more.
Alexander and Eleanor are parents of;
- Katherine White Carver
- Bridget White Robinson
- Katherine is the second wife of,
- John Carver first governor of the Plymouth Colony.
- Bridget is the wife of,
- John Robinson pastor to the Pilgrims,he and his wife led the Pilgrims to Leiden Holland then helped arrange their voyage to the New World. John and his wife also had a son Issac Robinson that ended up in the area of the Plymouth Colony when he came to America in 1632 and eventually settled in Sandwich/Barnstable.
- John Howland was a man servant of John Carver,was swept overboard on the Mayflower and rescued,had significant contributions to the Plymouth Colony.John and his wife Elizabeth Tilley Howland had a daughter Hope Howland that married John Chipman John had significant contributions to the Sandwich/Barnstable community.
- Lieutenant John Smith,his first wife was Deborah Howland who was the daughter of Arthur Howland and the niece of John Howland.
- Rev John Smith was married to Susanna Hinckley,sister of the last Governor of the Plymouth Colony,Thomas Hinkley.Rev John Smith,Issac Robinson and John Chipman served on the General Commision in regards to the Quakers. He and his son Samuel and possibly a few others left Barnstable,first moving to Long Island with the Dutch then to the Woodbridge,NJ area. Samuel appears to have stayed in NJ but John went back to Barnstable to be the pastor of the church.