I am descended from 7 of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower through my mother's line. Francis Cooke, Richard Warren, and William Mullins and wife Alice Mullins are my 10th great grandparents. John Cooke (son of Francis), Priscilla Mullins (daughter of William and Alice), and John Alden are my 9th great grandparents.
William and Alice Mullins died along with 43 others in the first winter at Plymouth in 1621, but their surviving orphaned daughter, Priscilla, married John Alden.
Sarah Warren, the daughter of Richard Warren, married John Cooke (son of Francis).
Some of their descendants settled in Little Compton, Rhode Island (no relation to the Compton line). In the 1760's some of them were among the Nova Scotia settlers who received land grants to farm, after the expulsion of the French Acadians. One of them, Sarah Mosher, who was descended from all seven of these Mayflower passengers, married Francis Densmore. Francis and Sarah were the grandparents of Letitia Densmore who married John A. Hennigar (he was the subject of an earlier post on this blog), my maternal great great grandfather.
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| Today's re-creation of the Pilgrim village on the shore of Plymouth Harbor. |
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| Painting depicting 1st Thanksgiving in 1621 at Plymouth Harbor celebrating the first successful harvest - 90 Wampanoag Indian men and 52 Pilgrims.
Comment: This Mayflower connection was not known in our family until my research worked this out a few years ago. Yes, there are millions that today are descended from at least one of the Mayflower passengers, but this is pretty special to me to remember at Thanksgiving time. The hardships that they endured seeking religious freedom and settling in a strange land is sobering. As an interesting coincidence, my mother lived at "Plymouth Harbor" in Sarasota, Florida for 12 years in the "John Alden Colony" of that retirement facility.
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That is so neat!
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