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Mayflower passenger list1/26/2024 ![]() He was almost lost at sea, after being thrown overboard during nightmare sea conditions. That death toll could have been higher had Howland not survived his own traumatic ordeal. Remarkably, most of the passengers and crew who left Plymouth in September 1620 survived 66 gruelling days at sea, before finally spotting Cape Cod on the horizon.īy the time the Mayflower arrived off the coast of North America, one passenger, William Butten, had sadly perished during the voyage.įour more people died while the ship was anchored off Cape Cod, and the harsh winter conditions accounted for nearly half of the remaining passengers and crew before the Pilgrims had even set foot on dry land. 383-88.It was a journey into the unknown for those who boarded the Mayflower some 400 years ago to sail to America.Īnd as if their perilous transatlantic crossing wasn't harrowing enough, imagine how frightened John Howland must have been when he fell overboard as a storm of epic proportions battered the Mayflower? Mayflower Passenger References, (from contemporary records and scholarly journals), by Susan E. “The lost children of Bedfordshire’s Pilgrim Fathers: The Tilley family of the Mayflower,” by Joy Forster, Mayflower Quarterly 65 :322-325. Ward, The American Genealogist 52 :198-208. “English Ancestry Of Seven Mayflower Passengers: Tilley, Sampson And Cooper,” by Robert L. Elizabeth Tilley, baptized 30 August 1607 married at Plymouth, John Howland, a fellow Mayflower passenger died at Swansea, 21 December 1687.Robert Tilley, baptized 25 November 1604 married at St Paul, Bedford, Bedfordshire, 1 November 1632, Mary Hawkins died 1639 he and Mary had two sons and a daughter.Rose Tilley, baptized 28 February 1601/02 no further record. ![]()
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