Dr. Samuel Fuller and
William Butten, “servant"-assistant.
Captain Myles Standish and
Mrs. Rose Standish.
Master William White and
Mrs. Susanna (Fuller)
White,
Resolved White, a son,
William Holbeck, “servant,”
Edward Thompson, “servant.”
Deacon Thomas Blossom and ----- Blossom, a son.
Master Edward Tilley and
Mrs. Ann Tilley.
Master John Tilley and
Mrs. Bridget (Van der
Velde?) Tilley (2d wife),
Elizabeth Tilley, a
daughter of Mr. Tilley by a former wife(?)
John Crackstone and
John Crackstone (Jr.),
a son.
Francis Cooke and
John Cooke, a son.
John Turner and
——
Turner, a son,
——
Turner, a son.
Degory Priest.
Thomas Rogers and
Joseph Rogers, a son.
Moses Fletcher.
Thomas Williams.
Thomas Tinker and
Mrs. ——
Tinker,
——
Tinker, a son.
Edward Fuller and
Mrs. ——
Fuller,
Samuel Fuller, a son.
John Rigdale and
Mrs. Alice Rigdale.
Francis Eaton and
Mrs. ——
Eaton,
Samuel Eaton, an infant
son.
Peter Browne.
William Ring.
Richard Clarke.
John Goodman.
Edward Margeson.
Richard Britteridge.
Mrs. Katherine Carver and her family, it is altogether
probable, came
over in charge of Howland,
who was probably a kinsman, both he and
Deacon Carver coming
from Essex in England,—as they could hardly
have been in England
with Carver during the time of his exacting
work of preparation.
He, it is quite certain, was not a passenger
on the Speedwell, for
Pastor Robinson would hardly have sent him
such a letter as that
received by him at Southampton, previously
mentioned (Bradford’s
“Historie,” Deane’s ed. p. 63), if
he had been
with him at Delfshaven
at the “departure,” a few days before.
Nor
if he had handed it
to him at Delfshaven, would he have told him in
it, “I have written
a large letter to the whole company.”
John Howland was clearly a “secretary”
or “steward,” rather than a
“servant,”
and a man of standing and influence from the outset.
That he was in Leyden
and hence a Speedwell passenger appears
altogether probable,
but is not absolutely certain.
Desire Minter (or Minther) was undoubtedly the daughter
of Sarah, who,
the “Troth Book”
(or “marriage-in-tention” records) for
1616, at the
Stadtbuis of Leyden,
shows, was probably wife or widow of one
William Minther—evidently
of Pastor Robinson’s congregation—when
she appeared on May
13 as a “voucher” for Elizabeth Claes,
who then
pledged herself to Heraut
Wilson, a pump-maker, John Carver being