John Goodman we know little more about than that he and Peter Browne seem
     to have been “lost” together, on one occasion (when he was badly
     frozen), and to have had, with his little spaniel dog, a rencontre
     with “two great wolves,” on another.  He was twice married, the last
     time at Leyden in 1619.  He died before the end of March, 1621. 
     As he signed the Compact, he must have been over twenty-one.

Edward Margeson we know nothing about.  As he signed the Compact, he was
     presumably of age.

Richard Britteridge affords little data.  His age, birthplace, or
     occupation do not transpire, but he was, it seems, according to
     Bradford, the first of the company to die on board the ship after
     she had cast anchor in the harbor of New Plymouth.  This fact
     negatives the pleasant fiction of Mrs. Austin’s “Standish of
     Standish” (p. 104), that Britteridge was one of those employed in
     cutting sedge on shore on Friday, January 12.  Poor Britteridge died
     December 21, three weeks earlier.  He signed the Compact, and hence
     may be accounted of age at the landing at Cape Cod.

Richard Clarke appears only as one of the passengers and as dying before
     the end of March.  He signed the Compact, and hence was doubtless
     twenty-one or over.

Richard Gardiner, we know from Bradford, “became a seaman and died in
     England or at sea.”  He was evidently a young man, but of his age or
     antecedents nothing appears.  He signed the Compact, and hence was
     at least twenty-one years old.

John Alderton (sometimes spelled Allerton), we are told by Bradford,—­as
     elsewhere noted,—­“was hired, but was reputed one of the company,
     but was to go back, being a seaman and so, presumably, unmindful of
     the voyages, for the help of others.”  Whether Bradford intended by
     the latter clause to indicate that he had left his family behind,
     and came “to spy out the land,” and, if satisfied, to return for
     them, or was to return for the counsel and assistance of Robinson
     and the rest, who were to follow, is not clear, but the latter view
     has most to support it.  We learn his occupation, but can only infer
     that he was a young man over twenty-one from the above and the fact
     that he signed the Compact.  It has been suggested that he was a
     relative of Isaac Allerton, but this is nowhere shown and is
     improbable.  He died before the may-Flower returned to England.

Thomas English (or Enlish), Bradford tells us ("Historie,” Mass. ed.
     p. 533), “was hired to goe Master of a [the] shallop here.”  He,
     however, “died here before the ship returned.”  It is altogether
     probable that he was the savior of the colony on that stormy night