William Butten, the first of the Pilgrim party to die, was, in all
     probability, a student-"servant” of Doctor Fuller at Leyden, and
     doubtless embarked with him at Delfshaven.  Bradford calls him
     (writing of his death) “Wm. Butten, a youth, servant to Samuel
     Fuller.”  Captain Myles Standish and his wife Rose, we know from
     Bradford, were with the Pilgrims in Leyden and doubtless shipped
     with them.  Arber calls him ("The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers,”
     p. 378) a “chief of the Pilgrim Fathers” in the sense of a father
     and leader in their Israel; but there is no warrant for this
     assumption, though he became their “sword-hand” in the New World. 
     By some writers, though apparently with insufficient warrant,
     Standish has been declared a Roman Catholic.  It does not appear
     that he was ever a communicant of the Pilgrim Church.  His family,
     moreover, was not of the Roman Catholic faith, and all his conduct
     in the colony is inconsistent with the idea that he was of that
     belief.  Master William White, his wife and son, were of the Leyden
     congregation, both husband and wife being among its principal
     people, and nearly related to several of the Pilgrim band.  The
     marriage of Mr. and Mrs. White is duly recorded in Leyden.  William
     Holbeck and Edward Thompson, Master White’s two servants, he
     probably took with him from Leyden, as his was a family of means and
     position, though they might possibly have been procured at
     Southampton.  They were apparently passengers in the Speedwell. 
     Deacon Thomas Blossom and his son were well known as of Pastor
     Robinson’s flock at Leyden.  They returned, moreover, to Holland
     from Plymouth, England (where they gave up the voyage), via London. 
     The father went to New Plymouth ten years later, the son dying
     before that time. (See Blossom’s letter to Governor Bradford. 
     Bradford’s Letter Book, “Plymouth Church Records,” i. 42.) In his
     letter dated at Leyden, December 15, 1625, he says:  “God hath taken
     away my son that was with me in the ship Mayflower when I went back
     again.”

Edward Tilley (sometimes given the prefix of Master) his wife Ann are
     known to have been of the Leyden company. (Bradford’s “Historie,”
     p. 83.) It is doubtful if their “cousins,” Henry Sampson and
     Humility Cooper, were of Leyden.  They apparently were English
     kinsfolk, taken to New England with the Tilleys, very likely joined
     them at Southampton and hence were not of the SPEEDWELL’S
     passengers.  Humility Cooper returned to England after the death of
     Tilley and his wife.  That Mrs. Tilley’s “given name” was Ann is not
     positively established, but rests on Bradford’s evidence.