Thanks for the links. I’ll be checking them out. My 9th Great-Grandfather came over as an indentured servant on the Mayflower. He was a tutor to Edward Winslow’s children. He signed the Mayflower Compact. As far as I know, he left no documents or manuscripts.
On my mother’s side, I had two ancestors who chose the New World over a Scottish prison in the 1600s. No idea if they could even read, much less write.
Mayflower ancestors are a big deal, whether or not they left documents. To pay for a tutor to travel to America, he had to have been close to the family, as well as well educated. If he was well educated, the probability is that his family had some education. How has tracing him back gone? I’d wonder if he had some religious background since a lot of education seemed to have come through that.
Have you done a lot of reading on life on the Mayflower and after it landed? I presume he married after reaching this country. GIVE! What did you learn about him???? Exciting. Never studied that period but it sounds fascinating.