Mayflower Passengers (1620)
Francis Cooke is the Long brothers’ 12th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger, 1620.
Richard Warren is the Long brothers’ 12th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger, 1620.
Degory Priest is the Long brothers’ ~11th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger who died the first winter at Plymouth.
George Soule is the Long brothers’ 11th great-grandfather. Mayflower passenger, came as servant of Edward Winslow.
The brothers’ ancestry includes five 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 | 12th great-grandfather via the Mayflower line |
| ●John Cooke | c. 1607, Leiden | 99WH-WYF | 11th great-grandfather via the Mayflower line. Son of Francis Cooke, with whom he sailed as a boy; m. Sarah Warren |
| ●Richard WarrenW↗ | ~1583 | KXML-7XC | 12th 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 | 11th great-grandfather via the Mayflower line |
From the Passengers to Mary Peckham
| Name | Born | PID | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| ●Sarah Warren | 1613 | 93WJ-W32 | 11th great-grandmother. Daughter of Richard Warren |
| ●Sarah Cooke | 1635 | KN77-YKF | 10th great-grandmother. Daughter of John Cooke and Sarah Warren |
| ●John Hathaway | 1653 | KFG4-B7P | 9th great-grandfather. Son of Sarah Cooke |
| ●Patience Hathaway | 1710 | LZCG-9RM | 8th great-grandmother. Wife of Reuben Peckham |
| ●Susannah Soule | 1642 | 9X3T-V7S | 10th great-grandmother. Daughter of George Soule |
| ●Susannah West | 1673 | LTVZ-WRJ | 9th great-grandmother. Daughter of Susannah Soule |
| ●Benjamin Barber | 1707 | KN8L-138 | 8th great-grandfather. Son of Susannah West |
| ●Mary Barber | ~1736 | LHPC-TPD | 7th great-grandmother. Wife of Timothy Peckham |
| ●Timothy Peckham | 6 Nov 1734 | LCPL-DY5 | 7th great-grandfather. Son of Patience Hathaway |
| ●Capt. Barber Peckham | ~1756 | M2WB-3BG | 6th great-grandfather. Son of Timothy Peckham and Mary Barber; father of Mary Peckham |
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke sailed with his son John (born about 1607 at Leiden, 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 the Long brothers.
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 the Long brothers via Nantucket. No record names Degory Priest’s parents; his English origins are unknown.
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 the Long brothers via the Peckham line of Rhode Island.
Sources
Each passenger is documented in Mayflower Families Through Five Generations(the “Silver Books”), the FASG-reviewed standard for proven Mayflower descent. Volume, compiler, and edition confirmed against the series’ published reference guide (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 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 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 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).
- 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.