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Written by Robert Jennings Heinsohn, PhD
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Robert Cushman and John Carver were the principal members of John Robinson's congregation arranging the congregation's passage to New England in 1620. This article is a retrospective summary of Robert Cushman's work to settle the Leiden congregation in Plymouth.
Robert Cushman descended from generations of Cushmans from Kent, England. In 1603 Robert Cushman (age 26) was listed as a servant to George Masters. In 1605 he was admitted a freeman of Canterbury as an apprentice "grosser" to George Masters. Cushman married Sara Reder in 1606 and a son Thomas was baptized in 1607/8. By 1609 Robert and his family were members of John Robinson's congregation in Leiden. Cushman joined other Pilgrims in the cloth-making trades and worked as a woolcomber. Two other children were born but died as infants. Sara died in 1615 and Robert married the widow, Mary (Clarke) Singelton in 1617. Mary died before 1621. |
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Written by Robert Jennings Heinsohn, PhD
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Isaac Allerton and his sister Sarah were members of John Robinson's congregation in Leiden in 1609. As time passed the congregation recognized the extraordinary organizational abilities of Isaac Allerton. By the time the congregation left Holland Isaac had become one of its prominent members. In 1620 Isaac, his wife Mary (Norris), and children Bartholomew, Remember and Mary arrived in Plymouth. Allerton's wife died during the first winter. When Governor John Carver died, Isaac was elected Assistant Governor to William Bradford. For several years Isaac was second only to Bradford. In 1623 Allerton married Fear Brewster, daughter of Ruling Elder William Brewster. They had a son Isaac in 1627. In 1625 Robert Cushman, the colony's London agent, died and Bradford appointed Allerton as the London agent.
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Written by John M. Hunt, Jr., PhD
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Pilgrim Richard More, whose gravestone is pictured on this page, was one of two male children on the Mayflower who started family lines in America and yet were too young to sign the Mayflower Compact. (The other was Henry Samson.) Richard is further interesting as the Pilgrim who, landing with the Separatists in Plymouth on the South Shore, went on to become a genuine Puritan, an inhabitant of Salem on the North Shore. He is also the only Mayflower passenger whose place of burial is marked by a gravestone laid at the exact time of burial. |
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Written by Robert Jennings Heinsohn, PhD
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Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley were married in 1623/4. John was about thirty-one and Elizabeth was about sixteen. They spent their entire lives in Plymouth, and between them participated in every aspect of the Pilgrim experience from its beginning in Leiden up to the merger of the Bay and Plymouth colonies. This article is a retrospective summary of their lives and their contribution to Plymouth. |
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Written by Robert Jennings Heinsohn, Ph.D.
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The activities of Isaac Allerton in Leiden and Plymouth are well known. Well known also are the circumstances concerning his dismissal as Plymouth's London agent. The purpose of this article is to piece together information describing his activities after he left Plymouth in 1631 until his death in 1659. To appreciate Allerton's activities it is useful to summarize developments in the English, Dutch and Swedish colonies during the time he pursued his trading activities. |
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Written by Dr. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
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Far more attention has been given to speculation about where Myles Standish was born than to consideration of his military experiences in the Low Countries before his emigration on the "Mayflower" to New England. Yet it is rarely remarked that the answer to the unresolved question of his birthplace has no demonstrable bearing on what is known of Standish's post-natal career or of his interaction with other Pilgrims and their acquaintances. The question arose at the end of his life, when Myles in his will mentioned a lost inheritance. Myles' childhood circumstances remain obscure, however much some descendants might like to place him in one or another grandly named "hall." |
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Pilgrim Biographies
