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The Speedwell, forgotten ship of the pilgrims’ voyage (400 years today?)
Bucks Co Courier Times ^
| November 22, 2017
| John Mullane
Posted on 08/01/2020 1:38:41 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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Wikipedia says today is the 400th anniversary of the Speedwell leaving Delfshaven, Holland to bring Pilgrims to America.
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posted on
08/01/2020 1:38:42 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
To: PghBaldy
Some of my ancestors were on that ship!
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posted on
08/01/2020 1:40:43 PM PDT
by
MissEdie
(I am South Carolina Strong.)
To: MissEdie
My husband was a Mayflower descendant from both Francis Cooke and John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.
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posted on
08/01/2020 1:43:41 PM PDT
by
altura
To: PghBaldy
They were going to keep the Speedwell as a fishing / trading vessel. Have to wonder if things would have gone better or worse if she had made it.
More people but more supplies and they would have arrived a month or so earlier.
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posted on
08/01/2020 1:53:34 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
Scene printed on the back of a U.S. $10,000 bill:
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posted on
08/01/2020 1:57:01 PM PDT
by
Rio
To: PghBaldy
Just like the 4th ship that accompanied the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, it fell off the edge.
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posted on
08/01/2020 2:15:57 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: altura
My ancestor was John Billington. He, along with his wife and son, were the most hated and despised members of the group. He was eventually the first person executed by the pilgrims and for many decades individuals who attempted to use him as their line to join The Mayflower Society were always blackballed.
To: PghBaldy
Unless I see video and selfies, I ain’t buying it.
To: freedumb2003
The Speedwell was the one carrying all the cats
and they knocked it off the edge.
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posted on
08/01/2020 2:18:32 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: MissEdie
Mine came over in 1634. But, that particular ancestor married a young lady whose family had come earlier as she had been born here. But, I haven’t learned her name yet or how that family arrived.
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posted on
08/01/2020 2:22:48 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(Was that before or after the fire was put out?)
To: Portcall24
Was the son the one who came very close to blowing up the Mayflower?
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posted on
08/01/2020 2:26:39 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: altura
My mother always said our ancestors were on the ship that followed the Mayflower- turns out it was the Speedwell. Wish someone would make a movie about it!
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posted on
08/01/2020 2:29:40 PM PDT
by
MissEdie
(I am South Carolina Strong.)
To: Portcall24
My ancestor was John “MadJack” Oldham. He got run out of Plymouth for preaching differently from the pilgrims
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posted on
08/01/2020 2:40:25 PM PDT
by
madmomma
To: PghBaldy
The Speedwell initially was supposed to accompany the Mayflower.
She developed leaks three miles out of port and had to turn back.
I had ancestors on the Speedwell.
They had to come over later.
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posted on
08/01/2020 3:01:34 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
To: Portcall24
I loved that story. It sounded like something I would do.
I'm bored. But I got some gun powdered... and some quills....
Let's get this party STARTED!
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posted on
08/01/2020 3:48:07 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/01/2020 4:11:29 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
To: altura
Then we are related! John Alden and the Mullins clan are my family too.
To: PghBaldy
A 43 year old ship built of pine in that era had to be unseaworthy before she pulled away from the quay. Ships that were listed as “repaired” or rebuilt were often a brand new ship except the fittings. That was done for accounting reason. I suspect that’s what happened to Speedwell.
To: martin_fierro
Didnt your relatives arrive on the REO Speedwagon?
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