The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 484 pages of information about The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete.

The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 484 pages of information about The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete.

Mrs. Chilton’s given name is declared by one writer to have been Susanna,
     but it is not clearly proven.  Whence she came, her ancestry, and
     her age, are alike unknown.

Mary Chilton was but a young girl in 1620.  She married, before 1627,
     John Winslow, and was probably not then over twenty, nor over
     fourteen when she came with her parents in the may-Flower.

Thomas Rogers appears, from the fact that he had a son, a lad well-grown,
     to have been thirty or more in 1620.  His birthplace, antecedents,
     and history are unknown, but he appears to have been “of the Leyden
     congregation.”  His wife and children came later.

Joseph Rogers was only a “lad” aboard the may-Flower, but he left a
     considerable posterity.  Nothing is surely known of him, except that
     he was Thomas’s son.

Degory Priest had the distinction of being “freeman” of Leyden, having
     been admitted such, November 16, 1615.  He was by occupation a
     “hatter,” a man of some means, who left a wife and at least two
     children in Holland when he embarked for America.  His known age at
     death gives his age at sailing but a few months previous.  At his
     marriage in Leyden, October 4, 1611, he was called “of London.”  He
     was about thirty-two when he married.  His wife (a widow Vincent)
     was a sister of Isaac Allerton, who also was married at the same
     time that he was.  Goodwin ("Pilgrim Republic,” p. 183) also gives
     his age as “forty-one.”  His widow remarried and came over later. 
     Dexter ("Mourt’s Relation,” p. 69, note) states, quoting from Leyden
     Ms. records, that “Degory Priest in April, 1619, calling himself a
     ‘hatter,’ deposes that he ‘is forty years of age.’” He must,
     therefore, have been about forty-one when he sailed on the
     may-Flower, and forty-two years old at his death.

John Rigdale and his wife Alice afford no data.  They both died early,
     and there is no record concerning either of them beyond the fact
     that they were passengers.

Edward Fuller and his wife have left us little record of themselves save
     that they were of Leyden, that he is reputed a brother of Dr. Samuel
     Fuller (for whom they seem to have named the boy they brought over
     with them,—­leaving apparently another son, Matthew, behind), and
     that both died the first winter.  He must have been at least
     twenty-five, judging from the fact that he was married and had two
     children, and was perhaps somewhat older (though traditionally
     represented as younger) than his brother.  Neither his occupation
     nor antecedents are surely known.

Samuel Fuller—­the son of Edward Fuller and his wife—­is called by
     Bradford “a young child.”  He must have been some five or six years
     of age, as he married in 1635, fifteen years later, and would
     presumably have been of age, or nearly so.

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