Question of the Week: Do you have any ancestors who were on the Mayflower or who were Puritans?

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Do you have Mayflower passengers or Puritans in your family tree? Tell us below. You might also answer on social media by sharing the question image with friends and family.

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I don’t have any puritans that I know of but many Quakers

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I have three ancestral lines to Hope Howland and John Chipman through their daughters Hannah (Chipman) Huckins and Ruth (Chipman) Crocker.

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Hello all, I am a descendant of Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower Rock Star!) both children Constance and Giles, along with Francis and Hester Cooke, Richard and Elizabeth Warren, and William Brewster. Edward Winslow is a great uncle.

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Yes, one (Richard Warren) whose descendants I know about and another possible (Chilton) whom I have not studied.  Probably more as I have many New England branches to my family tree.

I have one branch of my family that left Massachusetts for Rhode Island to get away from the Puritans.  Anyone interested in women's rights should take a close look at Massachusetts v. Rhode Island in the mid to late 17th Century in that respect.  I recall reading (no source just now) that c. 1690 Rhode Island was the only place on the face of the earth in which women had something close to the rights they have in 21st C. America.

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I'm also a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, his daughter Constance, and her daughter, Mary.

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I have many Quakers (Blackburns) and Puritans too!! Who were your Quakers?

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My Quakers arrived in Pennsylvania with William Penn.  They are Heacocks, Sharples, Pyles, Lewis, Taylor & John.

My Puritan ancestors were Bradleys, who first arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635.  They settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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Blackburn family here

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Yes, Five, Three signed Compact. John Chilton, his wife & Daughter, Mary, Francis Eaton & Francis Cooke. (& a wife of Cooke or Eaton, can't remember which)

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Well we are closely related then. My GG Francis Cooke as well. There are so many great family one never knows where to start. On my Mothers side are Ellis,Swift,Washburn,Willmarth and Mitchell’s   Also have to research Tilly and Howland. It is an endless task!!

Jan

Answer 1

John Alden of the Mayflower is my 9x GGrandfather.  My ancestors (Howes) stayed in Massachusetts for many generations before moving to Wisconsin.  My GGrandmother was Harriet Baker Howes, and was the first of our family to be born outside of Massachusetts (1842).  The relationships have been verified with DNA.

Answer 2

Yes, Edward Fuller.

Answer 3

Brian Pendleton was part of the Great Pilgrim migration and was my 9th great grandfather

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Congratulations on your descendency through a PGM migrant, Cheryl.  His profile is pretty well documented, research via Robert Charles Anderson's "The Great Migration."  But I see you've made several comments on his profile, it's nice to have you involved.

Answer 4

Yes. I am directly related to both Thomas and Joseph Rogers for whom i hold GSMD certificates as well as Brewster, Hopkins (Stephen, Giles and Constance),John Howland,Joan Hurst and Elizabeth Tilley.

Answer 5

FTDNA confirms my Full Sequence DNA is a match to Joan Hurst of the Mayflower. By genealogy profile that would make me a match with Elizabeth Tilley, her daughter, also a Mayflower traveler.

Answer 6

Puritans, yes, many.  On the Mayflower, none so far

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same here Jared.  Weird that we can have so many who are in the PGM project, but no Mayflowers...  then .

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Eh, it was just one boat out of many.  I don’t know that it was more important than any of the others.  It just had a good story behind it.

Answer 7

Recently learned Anne Hutchinson is an 11th great grandmother.

Answer 8

I am a descendant of Edward Doty (9X GGF) and William Brewster (10X GGF).  (What a combination!)  The two lines came together in my grandparents on my mother's side.  My maternal grandmother was Martha Doty; maternal grandfather was the grandson of Angeline Brewster.  I have ancestors on my father's side going back to Cape Cod and New England.  Still working on those lines.

Answer 9

William Bradford was my 9th great-grandfather through my mother and her mother (my grandmother) who used it to join various ancestral groups like The Mayflower Society. My mother was rather disdainful of such groups, saying they were pure snobbery. Estimates put the number of Mayflower descendants at over 30 million, meaning that it is no longer a very exclusive group.

Answer 10

George Soule

Answer 11

I am a direct ancestor of William Bradford of the Mayflower.  He is my 9th great grandfather.  His son was William Bradford, Jr.  His daughter was Melatiah Bradford who married John Steele. His son was Ebenezer Steele.  His daughter was Mary Steele who married Samuel Kellogg.  His son was Helmont Kellogg.  His son was Chauncy Kellogg.  His daughter was Ophelia Kellogg who married Francis Metcalf.  His son was Henry Metcalf.  His daughter was Zela Metcalf, who married Connie C. Wall.  His son was William R. Wall (my father).  His son was William Dale Wall - me.

Answer 12

John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley (and parents, John Tilley and Joan Hurst Tilley)

Answer 13

It would seem so.  I am supposed to have lineage back to Peregrine White.   Not verified.
"Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor on 20 Nov 1620. He became Captain of the Massachusetts Troops, was a member of the Council of War in 1675, and married in 1647 Sarah Bassett. Sarah was a daughter of William Bassett and the mother of one son, Jonathan White, born 4 June 1658 at Marshfield, MA. Sarah died in 1712. Peregrine White died 20 July 1704."

Answer 14

Hi Dale, I am the 12th great grandchild of Edward Fuller of Redenhall, England who died in Plimoth Colony in 1621. Fortunately his son Samuel survived and "had issue" as they used to say. We chose the right side in the rebellion and have lived in Canada since the 1780's. But that is another topic altogether, now isn't it. Hope you are enjoying Wikitree as much as I am. Daniel A.

Answer 15

John Alden and Priscilla Mullins-Alden are my 9th great grandparents... 11 degrees.  Their granddaughter Sarah Bass (Ruth Alden's daughter) married Phillip Thayer.  I am a direct descendant of the Thayer line.  My mother is a Thayer.

Answer 16

Yes, John Howland, “ the boy who fell off the Mayflower.” My half-brother and my half-sisters are descendants of Dr Samuel Fuller.”

Answer 17

Yes, I am a direct descendant of Francis Cooke and have finally gotten all the documentation to show it.  I would still appreciate any other help with documentation.

Janet Olivieri

Answer 18

Yes My 10X Great Grandfather John Done/Doane migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).

Answer 19

I do. Actually found recently that I'm descended from more than one, but my "solid" is Edward Fuller. He died not long after they arrived , but did sign the Mayflower Compact. 

I have a notification to go back and look at additional passengers, but I stuck a pin in that for a bit.   I'm trying to do too much at once, so things are not done as well as I would like, so I haven't even written the other passenger(s?) names down. Amazing there are so many of us. Is 35 million accurate? 

I am also directly descended from Robert Hunt, the ship's chaplain who was then the Chaplain in  Jamestown (my mind has been very 17th Century today!) and died not long after arriving.  That has been an interesting story as well, only found out today (on my b-day!) that he is definitely "our"  Robert Hunt.  I thought I was part of a Virginia Project, so I need to check that ASAP.  

Answer 20

Richard More, 5th cousin 11x removed

Henry Samson 9th cousin 12x removed

Agnes Cooper Tilley, 8th cousin 13x removed