Plymouth Colony

These Mayflower people are through Sarah Studevant Leavitte1797-1878. She is my 4^th. Great grandmother. Wife of Jeremiah Leavitt, 2^nd., 1793-1846. Sarah Studevant . Mother, was Priscilla Thompson 1760-1842, through whom the 4 Mayflower, Plymouth people are our ancestors. They come through my mother, Lulu Hunt, her mother Clarissa Truman, her mother Mary Jane Hunt, her father Jeremiah Leavitt 3^rd. His mother Sarah Studevant, her mother Priscilla Thompson, her mother Lydia Wood, her mother Mary Billington, her Father Isaac Billington, his father was Francis Billington,. who was on the Mayflower with his father John Billington of the mayflower, ( He was hanged for murder at Plymouth colony, the first person executed.) Lydia Woods father Elnathan Wood, his mother Abijah Bowen, her mother was Elizabeth Brewster, her father was Jonathan Brewster, of the Mayflower. Priscilla Thompson, father John Thompson, his father Shubeal Tomson, his father John Thompson, his wife, was Mary Cook, her father was Francis Cook, of the Mayflower. Shubeal Thomson mother was Mary Tinkham, her mother was Mary Brown, her father was Peter Brown, of the Mayflower.

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William Brewster (pilgrim)

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William Brewster

An imaginary likeness of William Brewster. There is no known portrait of him from life.

Born William Brewster

c. 1560

Scrooby, Nottinghamshire or Doncaster, Yorkshire, England

Died April 10, 1644 (aged 83– 84)

Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA

Nationality English Subject

Known for Pilgrim

Religion Separatist

Spouse(s) Mary Brewster

Children Jonathan Brewster

Patience Brewster Prence

Fear Brewster Allerton

Love Brewster

Wrestling Brewster

Parents William Brewster

Mary Smythe

Elder William Brewster ©. 1566 – April 10, 1644) was a Pilgrim colonist leader and preacher born in Doncaster, England and raised in Scrooby, in north Nottinghamshire, who reached what became the Plymouth Colony in the Mayflower in 1620. He was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons, Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster. Son Jonathan joined the family in November 1621, arriving at Plymouth on the ship Fortune, and daughters Patience and Fear arrived in July 1623 aboard the Anne

William Brewster ©. 1566 – April 10, 1644) was a Pilgrim colonist leader and preacher born in Doncaster, England and raised in Scrooby, in north Nottinghamshire, who reached what became the Plymouth Colony in the Mayflower in 1620. He was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons, Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster. Son Jonathan joined the family in November 1621, arriving at Plymouth on the ship Fortune, and daughters Patience and Fear arrived in July 1623 aboard the Anne.

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He was born probably at Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, circa 1566/1567, although no birth records have been found, [1][2][3][4][5] and died at Plymouth, Massachusetts on April 10, 1644 around 9 or 10pm.[1][2][3][4][5] He was the son of William Brewster and Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) and he had a number of half-siblings. His paternal grandparents were William Brewster and Maud Mann. His maternal grandfather

John Billington and his family, which included his son Francis, came on the Mayflower and landed at Plymouth Ma. in 1620. see story in notes for Francis. John was one of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower

In September 1630, after a heated argument over hunting rights, Billington fatally shot fellow colonist John Newcomen in the shoulder with a blunderbuss. After counseling with Governor John Winthrop, Governor William Bradford concluded that capital punishment was the necessary penalty. Billington was convicted of murder and hanged at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The inland pond known as Billington Sea was named after his son, Francis

FRANCIS BILLINGTON

As a young teenager, Francis Billington accompanied his mother Eleanor, his father John and his older brother (also) John to Plymouth on the Mayflower.

While anchored off Cape Cod, Francis shot off squibs (enough powder to make a bang), in the cabin of the Mayflower and almost set the ship on fire, opened kegs of gunpowder was in the cabin when they shot off the squib. Another story from the 17th century records relates how Francis climbed a tall tree and saw a great sea. After a closer look, it turned out to be a large pond (called Billington Sea today).

Francis Billington married Christian Penn Eaton, KNHB-K3H widow of Mayflower passenger Francis Eaton. They had 9 children. The Billington children were at one point taken away from the Billingtons and sent to live with other families (see the 17th century records for details).

Francis Cooke and his cousin Robert at Plymouth colony in 1621 </wiki/1621>, having been left behind with 20 others when the Mayflower's sailing mate, the Speedwell </wiki/Speedwell>, foundered and returned to port in England leaving the Mayflower to sail alone. Philippe is the progenitor of branch the Delano family </wiki/Delano_family> from which Franklin Delano Roosevelt </wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt> descends.

While in Leiden, Francis and Hester were members of the Walloon church. In 1606 </wiki/1606>, they left Leiden briefly for Norwich </wiki/Norwich>, England, where they joined another Walloon church, returning to Leiden in 1607 </wiki/1607>, possibly for religious reasons. Between 1611 </wiki/1611> and 1618 </wiki/1618>, the Cookes were members of the Pilgrim Separatist </wiki/Separatist> congregation in Leiden.

In 1620 </wiki/1620>, Francis and son John embarked on the Mayflower, leaving Hester and their younger children behind to follow when the colony was established.

Arriving at what is now Provincetown, Mass. </wiki/Provincetown%2C_Massachusetts>, on Nov. 11 (Nov. 21, new-style calendar), 41 of the passengers, among them Francis Cooke, signed the Mayflower Compact </wiki/Mayflower_Compact> as the boat lay at anchor.

Francis Cooke died in 1663 in Plymouth </wiki/Plymouth_%28town%29%2C_Massachusetts>. In 1651 </wiki/1651>, fellow Pilgrim William Bradford </wiki/William_Bradford_%281590-1657%29> wrote of him: "Francis Cooke is still living, a very old man, and hath seen his children's children have children. After his wife came over with other of his children; he hath three still living by her, all married and have five children, so their increase is eight. And his son John which came over with him is married, and hath four children living."

United States </wiki/United_States> Presidents George H. W. Bush </wiki/George_H._W._Bush>, George W. Bush </wiki/George_W._Bush>, and Franklin D. Roosevelt </wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt> are direct descendants of Francis Cooke.

Other famous descendants of Francis Cooke include Cephas Thompson </wiki/Cephas_Thompson> (artist), William D. Washburn </wiki/William_D._Washburn> (1831) Representative and Senator from Minnesota, Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson </w/index.php?title=Mrs._Anna_Mary_Robertson&action=edit> ("Grandma Moses"), Orson Welles </wiki/Orson_Welles>,Julia Child </wiki/Julia_Child> and Abel Head "Shanghai" Pierce (Texas cattleman that introduced the Brahman cattle breed into Texas).

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Francis Cook came ofer on the mayflower to help establish Plymouth colony. Frances was one of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower

　

　

Lieut. John Thompson, 1616-1696, was born in the North of Wales and came to Plymouth at the age of five with his mother and step-father, whose name is unknown, John's father having died in Wales when his son was an infant. This family emigrated from England in the third embarkation, one of the two Thomas Weston ships which brought sixty or seventy men, some of them with families. The passengers on these ships are not reckoned as Pilgrim Fathers, and one of the historians who calls them "a brawling profane crowd," intimates that their motives were not of the same high religious order as those which actuated the Pilgrims of the Mayflower, the Fortune, and the Anne. However this may be, our little John Thompson grew up among the Pilgrim Fathers, and married one of their daughters, Mary Cooke, and his future history shows that he was made of the same religious stuff that they were, and had imbibed their stern integrity. The Separatist movement was working in Wales at this period, and this fact probably accounts for the coming of John Thompson's family to Plymouth in 1621.

John became a carpenter and with Richard Church built the first framed meeting-house in Plymouth, for which service they were obliged to sue the colony for payment. John finally accepted land in payment, as ready money was then so scarce. After a short sojourn in Sandwich, John bought from Westasquin, Sachem of the Neponsets, about 6,000 acres of land in Middleboro, a tract said to have been five miles long, and from which eventually more than a hundred farms were carved. No wonder that it is stated in the records, that the boundary between Rochester and Middleboro was to be decided with "the Tomsons and others."

The selection of the site of John's first home in Middleboro was in the following manner. One noon time, being thirsty when working alone in a field, he followed to its source in a spring a brook that had a few fish in it. By this spring be built a log house about twenty rods from what was then the Plymouth, but later the Halifax boundary line. The early settlers frequently, as in this case, built their homes in secluded spots, in order to take advantage of some natural water supply, as they had no tools for digging wells, other than wooden shovels bound with iron. This log house was destined to be burned down by hostile Indians at the outbreak of King Philip's war in 1775.

　

　

　

PETER BROWN CAME ON THE MAYFLOWER TO HELP ESTABLISH PLYMOUTH COLONY. He was one of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower

Dorking, shown here in modern times, is where Peter Browne probably began his life in 1594.

Peter Browne was probably born in January 1594 in Dorking, Surrey, England[1] to William Browne.[1][2] He was baptized in the local parish on January 26, 1594.[2] While his brothers John (who joined him in 1632 in Plymouth Colony), Samuel, and James became weavers[2], his vocation is believed to have been a carpenter, machinist, or similar.[3] In 1619 or 1620 he was likely enlisted by William Mullins, as part of the "London contingent," whose trades and skills were necessary for the voyage of the Mayflower and the Speedwell and the creation of the colony.[4]

On September 6, 1620, Peter Browne boarded the Mayflower at Southampton, Hampshire, England.[4][1] With 102 fellow Mayflower passengers and crew, he intended to travel to "the Northern parts of Virginia" and establish an English colony near the mouth of the Hudson River.[4] Due to severe weather conditions, the ship was forced to anchor off of Cape Cod, where the first disembarkation occurred and where the Pilgrims determined to bind themselves as a democratically governed and administered colony loyal to England through the signing of the Mayflower Compact by all eligible men on behalf of themselves, their families, and their fortunes and property.[4] Peter Browne was one of the 41 men who signed it on November 11, 1620.[4]

was Thomas Smythe.



Early settlers

Edward Jessup, Ralph Hunt of Long Island, John Thompson

Ralph Hunt Sr. [2901]: He was born in 1613 in London, London, England,

England, and he died on 26-FEB-1676 in Newtown, Long Island, N.Y., N.Y. He married Elizabeth Ann RALPH HUNT.1652, pioneer at Long Island, first appears on Long Island across the East River from

Manhattan Island in 1652, apparently at that time with a wife and one daughter (ANNA). He

subsequently had four sons (Edward, Ralph, John, Samuel) and a daughter Mary b. on Long Island,

identified in his will of Jan 1676/7, administration granted to his son Edward 25 Feb 1676/7.

Most of his children and grandchildren were pioneer settlers at Maidenhead (Lawrence) and Hopewell

Townships, NJ, in the years around 1700 and from there many descendants became explorers and

traders along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, NC,KY, TN, IA, IL, MS, OK, and across the plains to

Utah, California, Oregon and Washington. There has been nothing to indicate that any of this family

ever settled in Vermont or elsewhere in New England, although a few moved up the Delaware River and

into Western New York State in the 19th century. However, Ralph Hunt of LI produced a prolific line

of Hunts which had many outstanding people of National significance in the development of the U.S.

It is well at this point to point out many of the errors which appear in histories and genealogies

respect to Ralph Hunt and his descendants for several generations, errors which have continued to

appear in publications up to and through the mid 1900s.

Ralph Hunt has variously been reported (erroneously) as a brother or son of the pioneer Thomas Hunt

of Westchester, NY; also as the same Ralph Hunt who appears in Virginia in 1635 (also untrue--a 1955

study which claims to have demonstrated that the two were the same produces evidence to the

contrary). Various dates are given for his birth (all incorrect) and statements are made purporting

to give the name of his wife (it remains unknown). He is assumed to have come from England (probably

true) but extensive contemporary research in early New York records and records in England by a

group of dedicated descendants in person and through professional genealogists in New York area and

England have failed to come up with any clue as to where he came from or who his ancestors were.

His grandson John Hunt (with brothers Samuel, Edward, Ralph--the four sons of the pioneer Ralph's

son John) were early settlers in Hopewell NJ, where they are mixed in with various uncles and

cousins with similar names. A pervasive legend was started in the mid-1800s that the grandson John

Hunt (who married Margaret Moore 8 Feb 1714 at the Presby. Church of Newtown, LI, and settled in

Hopewell NJ) was not a descendant of Ralph Hunt and relative of many other Hunts of Hopewell, but a

son of John and Elizabeth (Chudleigh) Hunt of an armorial family of Hunts of Chudleigh, the son

presumed to have come briefly to Long Island, and then moved Hopewell, NJ where he was "the start

of the New Jersey Line of Hunts." This legend , questionable on its face, has been subject of

controversy for over 100 years and appears in numerous histories and genealogical works. It should

finally be laid to rest by the direct documentary evidence found through the wills (two of them) of

John's brother Samuel Hunt of Hopewell NJ which identify the John Hunt who married Margaret Moor(e)

as the son of John Hunt of LI and grandson of the pioneer Ralph Hunt. This is not to say that the

various errors discovered on Ralph Hunt will not continue to be perpetuated--they are found in

numerous published works through the mid 20th century; some lists of early Hunts who migrated from

England to America include John Hunt who m. Margaret Moore in the list; some professional

genealogists in England fed back answers to inquiries giving the same information: all springing

from the same fabricated legend."

Jessop [13461] on 1652 in