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On September 6, 1620, more than 100 passengers set sail for America aboard the Mayflower. Beginning here is a list of those people.
On September 6, 1620, more than 100 passengers set sail for America aboard the Mayflower with Captain Christopher Jones in command. For 66 storm-tossed days the Pilgrims and "strangers," who outnumbered the Pilgrims, suffered their passage across a wintry Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Below is a partial list of those brave people who left England for America. The list will continue in subsequent articles as research is made. John Alden: John is believed to have been born in about 1599 or 1600. John married Priscilla Mullins sometime between 1621 or 1623, in Plymouth Colony. Priscilla Mullins Alden: Priscilla may have been born around 1602, and probably in or near Dorking, Surrey, England. She was the daughter of William and Alice Mullins who, with herself and one brother, Joseph, were all passengers aboard the Mayflower. Both of Priscilla's parents, as well as her brother, died the first winter in Plymouth. William Mullins: Father of Priscilla Mullins Alden. Both elder Mullins and their son died the first winter in America. William Bradford: Bradford was born March 19, 1589 or 1590, in Austerfield, York, England. On December 10, 1613, he married Dorothy May in Amsterdam. His second wife was Alice Carpenter Southworth, whom he wed August 14, 1623 at Plymouth. Dorothy May Bradford: Dorothy was born about 1597, in England. She married William Bradford on December 10, 1613, in Amsterdam. Her stay in the New World was cut short when she fell from the Mayflower on December 7, 1620, and drowned in Provincetown Harbor. Captain Miles Standish: It is believed that Standish was born in about 1584 or 1587, and probably in Lancashire, England. He first married a woman named Rose, prior to 1620. She, too, was a Mayflower passenger, but died the first winter in America. About 1623 he married a woman named Barbara, in Plymouth. Barbara arrived in America aboard the ship Anne in 1623. Mayflower Passengers continued. Recommended Reading: Sources: Athearn, Robert G. The New World: American Heritage New Illustrated History of the United States, Volume 1. Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1963. Collier's Encyclopedia, Volume 4. Crowell-Collier Educational Corp., 1968. Musick, John R. Columbian Historical Novels, Volume V: The Pilgrims: A Story of Massachusetts. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, London and Toronto, 1895.
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