those designated by the city of London for the
     benefit of the (London) Virginia Company in the spring of 1620. 
     They seem to have been waifs caught up in the westward-setting
     current, but only Richard survived the first winter.  Bradford,
     writing in 1650, states of Richard More that his brothers and sister
     died, “but he is married [1636] and hath 4 or 5 children.”  William
     T. Davis, in his “Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth” (p. 24), states,
     and Arber copies him, that “he was afterwards called Mann; and died
     at Scituate, New England, in 1656.”  The researches of Mr. George E.
     Bowman, the able Secretary of the Massachusetts Society of
     may-Flower Descendants, some time since disproved this error,
     but Mores affidavit quoted conclusively determines the matter.

The possible accessions to the company, at London or Southampton, of Henry Sampson and Humility Cooper, cousins of Edward Tilley and wife, would be added to the passengers of the pinnace rather than to the may-FLOWER’S, if, as seems probable, their relatives were of the Speedwell.  If Edward Tilley and his wife were assigned to the may Flower, room would doubtless also be found for these cousins on the ship.  John Alden, the only positively known addition (except Carver) made to the list at Southampton, was, from the nature of his engagement as “cooper,” quite likely assigned to the larger ship.  There are no known hints as to the assignments of passengers to the respective vessels at Southampton—­then supposed to be final—­beyond the remarks of Bradford that “the chief [principal ones] of them that came from Leyden went on this ship [the Speedwell] to give the Master content,” and his further minute, that “Master Martin was governour in the biger ship and Master Cushman assistante.”  It is very certain that Deacon Carver, one of the four agents of the colonists, who had “fitted out” the voyage in England, was a passenger in the Speedwell from Southampton,—­as the above mentioned remark of Bradford would suggest,—­and was made “governour” of her passengers, as he later was of the whole company, on the may-Flower.  It has sometimes been queried whether, in the interim between the arrival of the Speedwell at Southampton and the assignment of the colonists to their respective ships (especially as both vessels were taking in and transferring cargo), the passengers remained on board or were quartered on shore.  The same query has arisen, with even better reason, as to the passengers of the Speedwell during the stay at Dartmouth, when the consort was being carefully overhauled to find her leaks, the suggestion being made that in this case some of them might have found accommodation on board the larger ship.  The question may be fairly considered as settled negatively, from the facts that the colonists, with few exceptions, were unable