On 6/9/2010 10:12 AM, Maureen wrote: > Claims to the contrary by social climbers, few people can actually > trace their lineage to the Mayflower. There was only 102 people on the > Mayflower and over half of them died in the first year. Those on the > Mayflower, however, were religious separatists and would have been > among the first to call for separation of church and state. >
All technically true. But it is also true that the Mayflower was not the only ship that brought 'Pilgrims" to the Plymouth colony. In the following years several more ships brought more colonists fleeing the persecution of their particular sect in Europe. I have loosely traced one of my family lines to the Plymouth colony just four of five years after the Mayflower. I suspect they arrived on one of the following ships. This particular line goes through the maternal relationship three times in the generations between then and me. And where apparently loyalists in the American Revolution, since afterwords they migrate to Nova Scotia, Canada for about three generations before migrating back into the American Frontier of the time (Ohio|Illinois|Indiana). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320711 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
