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Mayflower History

On 6 September 1620 the ship Mayflower departed Plymouth, England carrying 102 passengers, 74 males and 28 females, many of whom were “Separatists” from the Church of England. They sited land on 9 November. Although they had a patent to settle in Virginia, with winter approaching and rough seas, they abandoned their destination and sailed into Cape Cod bay. Sickness and starvation took the lives of half the colonists the first year. Surviving families left a posterity estimated today to be in the millions.

William Bradford's History

• Bradford's history "of Plimoth Plantation" : from the original manuscript with a report of the proceedings incident to the return of the manuscript to Massachusetts. 1898. Boston, Massachusetts : Wright & Potter. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.

William Brewster

• Chief of the Pilgrims, or, the life and time of William Brewster : ruling elder of the Pilgrim company that founded New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England, in 1620. 1857. By Ashbel Steele..Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
• The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907 : a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth colony in 1620. c1908. Emma C. Brewster Jones, comp. and ed. New York, New York : Grafton Press. Online at: Vol. 1 - FamilySearch Digital Library, Vol. 2 - FamilySearch Digital Library.

Additional Published Sources

• The romantic story of the Mayflower Pilgrims, and its place in the life of today. 1924, c1918. By A. A. Addison. Boston, Massachusetts : L.C. Page & Co. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
• The Mayflower and her log, July 15, 1620 - May 6, 1621 : chiefly from original sources. 1901. By Azel Ames. Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
• The Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in New England in 1620 : with historical and local illustrations of providences, principles, and persons. 1849. By George B. Cheever. New York, New York : J. Wiley. FS Catalog book 974.4 H2cg, Film # 982350, Item 10
• Homes and haunts of the Pilgrim fathers. 1899. By Alexander Mackennal. London, England : The Religious Tract Society. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
• New light on the Pilgrim story. 1920. By Thomas W. Mason; B. Nightingale. London, England : Congregational Union of England and Wales. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
• The Pilgrims. c1907. By Frederick A. Noble. Boston, Massachusetts : Pilgrim Press. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
• The Pilgrim fathers from a Dutch point of view. 1932. By Daniel Plooij. New York, New York: New York University Press. FS Catalog book 974 D3p.
• Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers of the colony of Plymouth, from 1602-1625. 1841. By Alexander Young. Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Internet Archive, Ancestry ($).
• The Mayflower Reader: a Selection of Articles from The Mayflower Descendant. FS Catalog book 974.4 H29b. Online at: Ancestry ($).

Mayflower Passengers

Many individuals living in the United States can trace their ancestors to the Mayflower.

• List of Mayflower Passengers and their descendants.
• Transcription of Original List of Mayflower Passengers
• List of passengers who came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower" on her first trip in 1620. By Richard Henry Greene. New York, New York, 1896.
• Pilgrim Hall Meseum - Passenger Biographies
• The English ancestry and homes of the Pilgrim fathers: who came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne" and the "Little James" in 1623. By Charles Edward Banks. New York : Grafton Press, c1929. reprint. Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1962. Online at: Internet Archive, Ancestry ($).

Women on the Mayflower

• Women of the Mayflower at Mayflower 400

Mayflower Societies

General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Mayflower Quarterly
• Centennial history, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1897-1997. Duane A. Cline, compiler/editor.
• A history of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1897-1965. By Waldo Morgan Allen.
• Mayflower index : compiled and edited for the General Society of Mayflower descendants. By William Alexander McAuslan.
• Mayflower index. Lewis Edwin Neff, rev.
• Mayflower ancestral index. Milton E. Terry, and Anne Borden Harding, comps. Plymouth, Massachusetts : General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1981.

Arizona Society

• Roster of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Arizona - 1975
• Roster of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Arizona - 1976
• Roster of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Arizona - 1979
• Roster of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Arizona - 1982
• Roster of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the state of Arizona - 1985

California Society

• Los Angeles Colony of Mayflower in the State of California

Massachusetts Society

• Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants
• The Mayflower descendant: a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history.
• Massachusetts Society of Mayflower descendants : the Bowman files. By George Ernest Bowman.
• Mayflower births & deaths: from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. By Susan E. Roser. Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1992. Online at: Ancestry ($).
• Mayflower marriages: from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. . By Susan E. Roser. Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1990. Online at: Ancestry ($).
• Mayflower deeds & probates: from the files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. By Susan E. Roser. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994. Online at: Ancestry ($).

New Jersey Society

• Society of Mayflower descendants in the state of New Jersey : lineages (numbers 1 to 1065) from August 15, 1900, date chartered by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants to February 3, 1973. Walter Howard Kitchel comp.

Ohio Society

• Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Ohio
• Society of Mayflower descendants in the State of Ohio - 1927

Pennsylvania Society

• Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

John Howland Society

• John Howland Society
• The Howland quarterly : the Pilgrim John Howland Society, Inc.

Mayflower Resources - Wiki Articles

• List of resources that can help you trace your Mayflower ancestors.
• More information about the Plymouth Colony

Related Websites

• Plimoth Plantation
• Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Caleb Johnson's Mayflowerhistory.com
• Alden Kindred of America - Alden House Historic Site

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