WHOM DESCENT HAS BEEN PROVED * John Alden Isaac Allerton Mary Allerton (wife of Isaac1) Mary Allerton (Isaac1) Remember Allerton (Isaac1) John' Billington Samuel Fuller (Doctor) Elizabeth Hopkins (second wife Constance Hopkins (Stephen1) Gyles Hopkins (Stephen1) Eleanor Billington (wife of John1) John Howland Francis Billington (John1) William Bradford William Brewster Mary Brewster (wife of William1) Peter Brown James Chilton Chilton (wife of James1) Mary' Chilton (James1) Francis Cooke John Cooke (Francis1) Edward Doty Francis Eaton Sarah Eaton (wife of Francis1) -Fuller (wife of Edward1) William Mullins Alice Mullins (wife of William1) Joseph' Rogers (Thomas1) George Soule Myles Standish John1 Tilley Tilley (wife of John1) Elizabeth Tilley (John1) Richard Warren William1 White Susanna White (wife of William1) [Note: The name of Damaris Hopkins (Stephen1), who married Jacob Cooke, does not appear in the foregoing list because a doubt has recently been raised as to her having come in the Mayflower. In order to explain and harmonize certain apparent contradictions in the early records, Mr. George Ernest Bowman, secretary of the Massachusetts Society and editor of its official publication, The * From The Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants' Year Book, 1006, p. 7. Mayflower Descendant, constructed a theory, which he published in the magazine, that the Damaris Hopkins who came in the Mayflower died young; that the same name was given, as was not then uncommon, to a sister born at Plymouth after her death, and that it was this second Damaris who married Jacob Cooke. The evidence presented in support of this theory is interesting, although, as Mr. Bowman himself admits, the proof is not conclusive. See The Mayflower Descendant, vol. v. pp. 47-53.] The first entry in the records of Plymouth Colony is an incomplete list of "The Meersteads & Garden piotes of those which came first layd out 1620." Each of these "Garden plotes" contained one "the streete" in Plymouth was called First Street (later changed to Leyden Street), and originally extended from the shore to the old fort at the summit of what is now Burial Hill. The "high way" led to the Town Brook, and through it the Pilgrims brought water from "the very sweet brooke," into which the "many delicate springs" still continue to flow. The Pilgrims first erected a "Common House." In December, 1621, seven dwelling-houses had been built, besides four for the use of the plantation. The houses were constructed of rough hewn timber, with roofs of thatch and windows of oiled paper, while the fireplaces were made of stone laid in clay, and the chimneys stood outside the walls. The first house at the left in the illustration of Leyden Street, is on the site upon which the Pilgrims erected their first, or " Common House." In 1621 the fort was built as a protection from the Indians, and it was also used by the Pilgrims as a meeting house and place of worship. Elder Brewster's house in Plymouth was at the intersection of "the streete" and "high way." |