Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882)

The Mayflower was a ship which is famous for its sailing to North America in 1620 bringing pilgrims and other settlers to create the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts.

This is a list of the passengers who traveled on that voyage in 1620. Some of these people were looking for a new home so that they could practice their own religion. Others were passengers who came for other reasons.

Servants

Thirteen of the eighteen persons in this category were attached to Pilgrim families, the other five were with non-Pilgrim families. Four of those listed here were small children, given over by Samuel More to Thomas Weston and then to agents John Carver and Robert Cushman, who assigned them to senior Mayflower Pilgrims to be classed as indentured servants.[7]

Mayflower plaque in St. James Church in Shipton, Shropshire commemorating the More children baptism.

In all, there were 102 passengers on the Mayflower - 74 males and 28 females

Carpenters

Animals

At least two dogs are known to have participated in the settling of Plymouth. Edward Winslow writes that a female dog which is called an English Mastiff, and a small English Springer Spaniel came ashore on the first explorations of what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts. There may have been other animals on the Mayflower, but only these two dogs had been mentioned.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Division of passengers by category generally follows Appendix I of Saints and Strangers by George F. Willison with the following exceptions, as per The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, Passengers on the Mayflower: Ages & Occupations, Origins & Connections [1], 2000, Patricia Scott Deetz and James F. Deetz: The families of James Chilton and Edward Fuller, brother of Samuel Fuller as well as Thomas Williams, are now known to have been living at Leiden and cannot fit the category of recruited by London merchants and have been listed with the Pilgrims. Significant scholarship has produced many new documents since Willison's 1945 publication.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Humility Cooper and Henry Sampson were both children who joined their uncle and aunt Edward and Ann Tilley for the voyage. Willison lists them as "strangers" because they were not members of the church at Leiden; however, as children they would have been under their aunt and uncle who were members of that group.
  3. ↑ A genealogical profile of Edward Fuller [2] Archived 2011-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ New England Genealogical and Historical Society [3] Archived 2013-02-15 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Ruth Wilder Sherman, CG, FASG, and Robert Moody Sherman, CG, FASG, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of William White, Vol. 13 3rd edition (Pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2006) pg. 3.
  6. ↑ Nathaniel Philbrick. Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community and War (Viking 2006) p. 104
  7. ↑ Donald F. Harris, PhD. The Mayflower Descendant (July 1993) vol. 43 p. 123-4 and (January and July 1994 vol. 44 p. 110-113
  8. ↑ William Bradford. History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth (Boston. 1856 Not in copyright) p. 455
  9. ↑ A genealogical profile of John Carver, (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013-04-21) Archived 2012-11-01 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Memorial for Richard More
  11. ↑ [4] Archived 2005-03-25 at the Wayback Machine Canines on the Mayflower
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