Who were the Mayflower passengers?

READ BEFORE COMMENTING: 1) Yes, the video moves around a lot. I originally filmed this for a friend and posted it to YouTube because of the size. It went viral after that, now I have a channel. I'll be recording an updated, stable version in 2024. Please stop mentioning it. 2) If you tuned out when I made the mistake about Stephen Hopkins marrying Susanna White, jump to 13:12. I corrected the error later in the video, it was a momentary brain fart. 3) The Mayflower Pilgrims were not "terrorists" or "colonizers who just wanted to kill Indians." Comments to this effect will be removed. 4) If you want to buy the poster, it is available for purchase here (not sponsored) store.thehistorylist.com/products/mayflower-passen… 5) Mind your manners. UPDATE: Follow-up video is here, "How did the Pilgrims meet the Wampanoags?" https://youtu.be/aCKIHbDwxaQ ______________________________

I was born in Hertford, county town of Hertfordshire, England. We have all sorts of statues, plaques, relics and reminders of people who left to settle in the new world. I can't imagine how tough it must have been.

This poster is facilitating. I never knew how many came over and then passed away. Thank you for sharing….

Each and everyone was an absolute maniac to attempt such a mission

My grandma said I’m a descendant of Edward Doty, a servant of Hopkins. Every time I gave birth to a child, my mom sent her my kid’s info to add to the genealogy records. I’ve never been interested until recently.

I love this! I'm a descendant of William Brewster (through his daughter, Patience). He's my 13th-great grandfather. Insane that my family has a family tree going back that far.

I discovered I am a Mayflower descendant last year through Thomas Rogers. I have been reading, watching and researching ever since! Thank you for sharing all of this great info!

My ancestors the Grand Sachem Massasoit from the Wampanoag Tribe have met some of the living crew members from the Mayflower several months after arriving here in America back in March 1621, and he sent Squanto a member of the Patuxet tribe to communicate with the Pilgrims, because he knew how to speak English from being sent to England as a Slave years prior to the 1620 Mayflower Plymouth landing..

There is so much, many Americans are unaware of. With regard to those who made the 'Daunting Journey' at the time. I shall return here, to further digest the history of the people placing themselves at such extreme risk. Again, thanks so much!!

I live in Connecticut and it is amazing what church records, ship manifests, records of people denied revolutionary war military pay, and cemetary records tell us......these records are scattered about the little town libraries all along the northeast coast....it is awesome what our ancestors endured.

You can thank William Bradford for our extensive knowledge of the Mayflower passengers and crew and early history of Plymouth. I strongly recommend reading his book "Of Plimoth Plantation." This is basically a journal Bradford kept and added to from time to time in which he tracks the comings and goings of various colonists, major milestones and historical events in the colony. I also recommend "Saints and Strangers" by George Willison. His book fills in a lot of gaps and draws on a number of sources. Note that in Bradford's book he uses a lot of spellings that may not correspond to the current spellings for various family names not to mention various words in the English language. Spelling was somewhat fluid and inconsistent in those days, especially regarding surnames. Today people get hung up on spelling when researching genealogy and sometimes insist that Stephen Hopkins can't possibly be their ancestor because their family spells it Hoptkins. In my own family there are several instances where an ancestor made a single consonant into a double consonant or vice versa or where F and PH are used interchangeably Even in the title of his book he spells Plymouth as "Plimoth" which is how Plimoth Plantation spells it.

My husband’s family go back to the Bradfords. And boy are they proud of it. We have the family tree all written out on how they were related.

What a cool poster! I love stuff like this.

My mother traced our family tree back not quite to the Mayflower. There is a Billington line that splits - one line is from the Mayflower, the other line is not. At that point she was unable to definitely determine which line was "ours" - so therefore my family has a 50/50 chance of being directly descended from the Mayflower Billingtons, a rather dubious honor indeed, what with the negative reputation of the Mayflower Billingtons. As "they say", be careful how far back you trace your family tree - sooner or later you will encounter a horse thief or a murderer. 🙂

My ancestor arrived in 1634 to Massachusetts Bay Colony, he sailed from Kent, England on the Hercules.

I'm descended from three Mayflower families; William White through his son Resolved, Richard Warren through his daughter Abigail and George Soule through his daughter Mary. Just discovered my connection to the last two recently. I now have the honor of sharing this information with my family this Thanksgiving. So grateful that they survived against all odds that first year.

I descend from that family of SOBs 🤣 the Billington’s through Francis on my maternal side and through Degory Priest on my paternal side. Degory didn’t make it, but he left a family in the old world who came over later. I also descend from a brother of John Howland, the one who fell overboard and nearly drowned. This was fun to watch.

One son did the math and figures about 60,000,000 are direct ancestors from the Mayflower in America. John Alden, Gardner, Standish, Pracilla Mullins, Brewster, Bradford exchange . . . and so on. Most of the U. S. Presidents, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, and so on are from the Mayflower folk.

My husband and son are descended from the Brewster family through their son Love Brewster's line. So funny; neither of them could care less about tracing their ancestry, whereas I can't get enough of finding out about it.

My ancestor was Francis Eaton,his wife was Sarah Hollister,they were my ten times great grand parents!