Thursday, August 1, 2013

Mayflower Ansestry

While looking into some genealogical research for my father.  I decided to look into how many pilgrims of the Mayflower I was related to.  Come to find out my children (my side and my husband's side) are related to 27 of the 120 original Pilgrims. 













Here is a list:

Isaac Allerton, Mary Allerton, Bartholomew Allerton, Remember Allerton, Mary Allerton, James Chilton, Mrs. James Chilton, Mary Chilton, Francis Cooke, John Cooke, Edward Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Edward Winslow,Elizabeth Winslow, Peter Browne, William Mullins, Alice (Atwood)Mullins, Priscilla Mullins, Joseph Mullins, Richard Warren, William White, Susanna (Fuller) White, Resolved White, Peregrine White,  John Alden, John Howland, William Latham, and George Soule.
The most famous of the two, or at least the most Couple that was mentioned to me the most when I was going up was Pricilla Mullins and John Alden.

John and Pricilla Alden were well known due to 1858 marrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called "The Courtship of Miles Standish." The poem is about a love triangle between three pilgrims: Miles Standish, Pricilla Mullins and Jon Alden. The author clamed the story was true, however, many believe to the contrary. The statue is a depicting a scene from that poem where John has been asked to ask for Pricilla's hand in marriage for his Captain Miles Standish, when Pricilla replies with "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"

This is just one of many stories that my ancestors hold about the mayflower.  many of the men were signers of the Mayflower compact.