Plymouth Colony Ancestors Who Arrived on the Mayflower, the Fortune and the Anne (1620-1623)

Mayflower Passengers, 1620

Replica of the Mayflower, Plymouth Harbour 1999

Having recently been provided with additional genealogical information by my 4th cousin Jack Brown, I have been able to expand the list of our ancestors who were early comers to Plymouth Colony. Because we now know that 13 of the estimated 102  passengers and 30 crew on board the Mayflower were "ours", it is helpful to have a list to keep them all straight. Here they are:

1. Peter Brown
2. James Chilton, a tailor, the oldest passenger aboard the Mayflower
3. Mrs. James Chilton (died the first winter at Plymouth)
4. Mary Chilton who became the wife of John Winslow, a passenger on the Fortune
5. William Mullins, a shopkeeper, shoe and bootmaker (died the first winter at Plymouth)
6. Alice Mullins (died the first winter at Plymouth) (Caveat: Alice may not be the mother of Priscilla and therefore may not be one of our ancestors after all!)
7. Priscilla Mullins who became the wife of John Alden
8. John Alden, the cooper aboard the Mayflower decided to stay on in Plymouth and marry Priscilla Mullins
9. John Howland, arrived as a manservant to Governor Carver (possibly a relative of his), married Elizabeth Tilley
10. Francis Cooke, a wool comber (his wife and daughter came later on The Anne)
11. John Tilley, a silk worker (died the first winter at Plymouth)
12. Joan (Hurst) Tilley (died the first winter at Plymouth)
13. Elizabeth Tilley  who became the wife of John Howland

Passengers on the Fortune, 1621 

After the Mayflower's arrival, the next ship to bring colonists to Plymouth was the Fortune. Ancestors who came on that ship were:

1. Moses Symonson (Simmons)
2. John Winslow married Mary Chilton who had arrived on the Mayflower, had brothers Edward and Gilbert aboard the Mayflower and another, Kenelm Winslow, who came later possibly on the second coming of the Mayflower - thus we descend from John and Kenelm's parents twice.

Passengers on the Anne, 1623

And the final of the first three ships that brought the last of the passengers who were named in the 1627 Division of Cattle in Plymouth included these ancestors:

1. Experience Mitchell
2. Ellen Newton, first married John Adams who had arrived on the Fortune and after his death married our ancestor Kenelm Winslow
3. Mrs. Francis Cooke (Hester Mahieu)
4. Jane Cooke