one of Wilson’s “vouchers.”  In 1618 Sarah Minther (then recorded as
     the widow of William) reappeared, to plight her troth to Roger
     Simons, brick-maker, from Amsterdam.  These two records and the
     rarity of the name warrant an inference that Desire Minter (or
     Minther) was the daughter of William and Sarah (Willet) Minter (or
     Minther), of Robinson’s flock; that her father had died prior to
     1618 (perhaps before 1616); that the Carvers were near friends,
     perhaps kinsfolk; that her father being dead, her mother, a poor
     widow (there were clearly no rich ones in the Leyden congregation),
     placed this daughter with the Carvers, and, marrying herself, and
     removing to Amsterdam the year before the exodus, was glad to leave
     her daughter in so good a home and such hands as Deacon and Mistress
     Carver’s.  The record shows that the father and mother of Mrs. Sarah
     Minther, Thomas and Alice Willet, the probable grandparents of
     Desire Minter, appear as “vouchers” for their daughter at her Leyden
     betrothal.  Of them we know nothing further, but it is a reasonable
     conjecture that they may have returned to England after the
     remarriage of their daughter and her removal to Amsterdam, and the
     removal of the Carvers and their granddaughter to America, and that
     it was to them that Desire went, when, as Bradford records, “she
     returned to her friends in England, and proved not very well and
     died there.”

“Mrs. Carver’s maid” we know but little about, but the presumption is
     naturally strong that she came from; Leyden with her mistress.  Her
     early marriage and; death are duly recorded.

Roger Wilder, Carver’s “servant;” was apparently in his service at Leyden
     and accompanied the family from thence.  Bradford calls him “his
     [Carver’s] man Roger,” as if an old, familiar household servant,
     which (as Wilder died soon after the arrival at Plymouth) Bradford
     would not have been as likely to do—­writing in 1650, thirty years
     after—­if he had been only a short-time English addition to Carver’s
     household, known to Bradford only during the voyage.  The fact that
     he speaks of him as a “man” also indicates something as to his age,
     and renders it certain that he was not an “indentured” lad.  It is
     fair to presume he was a passenger on the Speedwell to Southampton. 
     (It is probable that Carver’s “servant-boy,” William Latham, and
     Jasper More, his “bound-boy,” were obtained in England, as more
     fully appears.)

Master William Bradford and his wife were certainly of the party in the
     Speedwell, as shown by his own recorded account of the embarkation. 
     (Bradford’s “Historie,” etc.)

Master Edward Winslow’s very full (published) account of the embarkation
     ("Hypocrisie Unmasked,” pp. 10-13, etc.) makes it certain that
     himself and family were Speedwell passengers.