Mayflower Passengers (1620)
Francis Cooke is your ~11th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger, 1620.
Richard Warren is your ~11th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger, 1620.
Degory Priest is your ~11th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger who died the first winter at Plymouth.
George Soule is your ~10th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger, came as servant of Edward Winslow.
Your ancestry includes at least four confirmed passengers on the Mayflower, which arrived at Plymouth, Massachusettsin November 1620 carrying roughly 100 souls. These connections come through the southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island branches of Mom’s side.
| Name | Born | PID | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| ●Francis CookeW↗ | 1583 | LZ2F-MM7 | ~11th great-grandfather via the Mayflower line |
| ●Richard WarrenW↗ | ~1583 | KXML-7XC | ~11th great-grandfather via the Mayflower line |
| ●Degory PriestW↗ | 1579 | LYXM-V3F | ~11th great-grandfather via the Mayflower line, died 1st winter |
| ●George SouleW↗ | ~1600 | LZN7-DXZ | ~10th great-grandfather via the Mayflower line |
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke sailed with his son John (1606, PID: 99WH-WYF). His wife Hester Mahieu (~1584, PID: LHVB-P72) was of French Walloon descent. John married Sarah Warren, daughter of fellow passenger Richard Warren, creating a double Mayflower connection. Through the Hathaway and Peckham families, this line reaches you.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest died the first winter at Plymouth Colony. His daughter Mary Priest (1611, PID: 9HHV-JSL) married Phineas Pratt (~1593, PID: LRLD-C6D), and through the Coleman families this reaches you via Nantucket. Priest’s ancestry connects to Sir Hugh of Devon Prust (1527, PID: LZ2Z-ZPY).
George Soule
George Soule came as a servant of Edward Winslow. Through his daughter Susannah (1644, PID: 9X3T-V7S) and the Barber family, this reaches you via the Peckham line of Rhode Island.
Sources
Each passenger is documented in the General Society of Mayflower Descendants’ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations(the “Silver Books”), the FASG-reviewed standard for proven Mayflower descent. Volume, compiler, and edition confirmed against the GSMD Reference Guide to the Mayflower Silver Books Series (rev. Jan 2024).
- Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 12: Francis Cooke. Compiled by Ralph V. Wood Jr. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014. Mayflower Society passenger profile.
- Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 18, Part 1: Richard Warren. Compiled by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG; edited by Judith H. Swan. 3rd ed. GSMD, 2004 (Parts 2-3, 1999-2001). Mayflower Society passenger profiles.
- Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 8: Degory Priest. Originally compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, and Margaret Harris Stover; re-edited by Margaret Harris Stover. GSMD, 2008. Mayflower Society passenger profile.
- Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 3: George Soule. Compiled by John E. Soule and Robert L. Thomas, MD; edited by Anne Borden Harding. GSMD, 1980 (out of print; continued in the Mayflower Families in Progress Soule series). Mayflower Society passenger profile.
- Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. Edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
- Johnson, Caleb H. The Mayflower and Her Passengers. Xlibris, 2006.
- Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 vols. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.