Genealogy Chat

oooh my maiden name is Priest...wonder if Degory is connected to my family? Thanks for the interesting snippets, Carol Chris

And where is Justinian Holden, from whom all Holdens in the US are descended, lol. (Don't bother looking for him - he was a girl! A fact which has escaped many researchers on One World Tree etc.) OC

Bartholomew Gosnold (1572 - August 22, 1607) was an English lawyer, explorer, and privateer. He was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of London, and also Jamestown, Virginia, and is considered by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) to be the 'prime mover of the colonization of Virginia.' He led the first European expedition to visit Cape Cod, on May 15, 1602. He was born in Grundisburgh in Suffolk, England in 1572. His parents were Anthony Gosnold and Dorothy Bacon. He graduated from the University of Cambridge and studied law at Middle Temple. He was friend of Richard Hakluyt and sailed with Walter Raleigh. He obtained backing to attempt a colony in the New World and in 1602 he sailed from Falmouth in a small Dartmouth bark, The Concord, with 32 on board. They intended to establish a colony in New England which was then known as Northern Virginia. He pioneered a direct route due west from the Azores to New England arriving in May 1602 Cape Elizabeth in Maine (Lat 43 degrees). He skirted the coastline for several days before anchoring in York Harbor, Maine on May 14, 1602. The next day, he sailed to Cape Cod, a place he is credited with naming. Following the coastline for several days, he discovered Martha's Vineyard and named it after his daughter. He established a small post on Elizabeth's Island, which is now called Cuttyhunk Island and is part of the town of Gosnold. The post was abandoned when intending settlers decided to return on the ship to England since they had insufficient provisions to over winter.

Mayflower Passenger List John Alden Issac Allerton Mary Allerton(wife) Bartholomew Allerton(son) Mary Allerton(daughter) Remember Allerton(daughter) Don Allerton(no relation to other allertons) Don Billington Eleanor Billington(wife) Frances Billington (relation unkown) John Billington (son) William Bradford Dorothy May Bradford (wife) William Brewster Mary Brewster (wife) Love Brewster(son) Wrestling Brewster (son) Richard Britteridge Peter Brown William Butten Robert Cartier John Carver Katherine Carver(wife) James Chilton Susanna Chilton(wife) Mary Chilton (unknown relation) Richard Clarke Francis Cooke John Cooke (son) Humility Cooper John Crackston John Crackston (son) Edward Doty Francis Eaton Sarah Eaton (wife) Samuel Eaton (son) (first name unkown) Ely (sailor) Thomas English Moses Fletcher Edward Fuller Ann Fuller (wife) Samuel Fuller(son) Samuel Fuller(not related)Physician) Richard Gardiner John Goodman William Holbeck John Hooke Steven Hopkins Elizabeth Hopkins(wife) Giles Hopkins(son) Constance Hopkins(daughter) Damaris Hopkins(daughter ) Oceanis Hopkins(son)(born during voyage) John Howland John Langmore William Latham Edward Leister Edmund Margeson Christopher Martin Marie Martin Desire Minter Elinor More Jasper More Richard More Mary More William Mullins Alice Mullins(wife) Joseph Mullins (son) Priscilla Mullins(daughter) Degory Priest Solomon Prower John Rigdale Alice Rigdale Thomas Rogers Joseph Rogers(son) Henry Sampson George Soule Miles Standish Rose Standish(wife) Elias Story Edward Thompson Edward Tilley Agnes Tilley(wife) John Tilley Joan Tilley(John's wife) Elizabeth Tilley (daughter) Thomas Tinker (The wife Thomas tinker, name unknown) (The son Thomas tinker, name unknown) William Trevore John Turner (two sons of john Turner, unkown) Master Richard Warren William White Susana White (wife) Peregrine White(son) Resolved White(son) Roger Wilder Thomas Williams Edward Winslow Elizabeth Winslow(wife) Gilbert Winslow (Brother)

Thanksgiving Day. On August 5th, 1620, the Mayflower and the Speedwell set sail from Southampton, England, for the Hudson River, in what is now New York. The Speedwell began to leak and the ships were forced to stop in Dartmouth, England, for repairs. On August 21st, they left again, only to have new leaks force them to return to England once more, this time to Plymouth. There it was decided that the Speedwell could not be made seaworthy for such a voyage. On September 6th, the Mayflower again set sail for the New World, this time alone. There were 102 passengers on board, most of whom were Pilgrims fleeing religious persecution. For 2 ½ months, the passengers and crew endured cold, sickness, bad food, leaks that threatened to scuttle the ship and storms that blew them far off course, before landing at what is now Provincetown, on Cape Cod, on November 21st. After determining that the area was not suitable for settlement, they landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, on December 21st. Despite the hardships, it was a successful crossing for that time in history, as only one person died. Nearly a year later, the Pilgrims celebrated a good harvest with the first Thanksgiving in the New World.