[Pollard]

http://mayflowerhistory.com/massasoit

Caleb Johnson has one of the most well known Mayflower and Plymouth websites among New England genealogists. We’re from the Plymouth area and my sister did our genealogy. I got into it for a while too. I had a good library with a genealogy section nearby and used to look things up for my sister and also traced our surname back to a 1630 arrival of a ship to what’s now Boston. The surname morphed a lot over the years but started out as Pollard, my screen name. We have several lines going back to the Mayflower passengers by way of marriages.

When you look at an ancestral chart of Pilgrim descendants back in the 16-1700s, it looks like something you’d see in back woods Mississippi with lines that criss cross with people marrying 4th cousins twice removed etc.

There are an estimated 35 million mayflower descendants these days.

[Hootowl99]

Family trees are interesting. Mine is kind of mixed up, sort of mongrel I suppose. LOL

The main branches are English in 1700s Virginia, 1700s Spanish in Taos, NM, two waves of Irish in the 1800s that originally settled into Georgia, Dutch in the 1800s that settled in Texas. The English and Irish lines extended to Texas then these two and the Dutch line extended into Oklahoma.

I think I am confused now but what the heck.

[BenLurkin]

Not a Mayflower descendent, the Lurkins got here a little later. Great-great—etc—pa Lurking served in the King Philip’s War.

[crz]

What they historians fail to reflect on is that very soon after the establishment of the colony, the nobles in England attempted to establish the nobility here in the colonies.

William Fiennese attempted to do that at the Conn river valley and one of my ancestors-Abraham Temple had signed on to go to his uncles new holdings to work. He ended up at Salem Mass (1630s) and immediately “failed” to go.

The Temples were one of the most powerful families in England at that time. All Puritans and two were signers of Charles the 1st death warrant.