Mayflower Passengers

Mayflower Passengers

A List of All of Our Ancestors who were Passengers Aboard the Famous Ship, 'Mayflower', in 1620.

The Mayflower was the famous ship that carried the Pilgrims, English separatists looking for freedom from religious prosecution, from Southampton, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.

The ship departed England on September 6 and would sail for 66 days. The journey was hampered by disease, which would claim two lives, before dropping anchor inside the hooked tip of Cape Cod on November 11. The ship was originally set to make landfall at the mouth of the Hudson River, but had sailed off course as winter approached. The passengers all went ashore on March 21, 1621. The Mayflower, a privately commissioned vessel, left for a return trip to England on April 5. The Mayflower was likely dismantled for scrap lumber after the death of her captain, Christopher Jones, in 1622.

Of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower seven of them were our ancestors (6.86%). Four of them in Grandy's McFarland ancestry, and three of them in Nana's Bates ancestry.

Elder William Brewster IV (1566 - 1644)

Mary (Wentworth) Brewster (1568 - 1627)

See: Brewster Family Line

James Chilton (1556 - 1620) - died aboard ship.

[unknown wife] (1564 - 1621) - died aboard ship.

Mary Chilton (Winslow) (1607 - 1679)

See: Chilton Family Line

Stephen Hopkins (1581 - 1644)

Constance Hopkins (Snow) (1606 - 1677)

See: Hopkins Family Line

Sources:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Mayflower

http://mayflowerhistory.com/mayflower-passenger-list

https://sites.google.com/site/mcfarlandbatesfamilytrees/mayflower-passengers