M^r. Carver and his wife dyed the first year; he in y^e spring, she in
y^e so[=m]er; also, his man Roger and y^e litle boy Jasper dyed before
either of them, of y^e commone infection. Desire Minter returned to her
freinds, & proved not very well, and dyed in England. His servant boy
Latham, after more then 20. years stay in the country, went into
England, and from thence to the Bahamy Ilands in y^e West Indies, and
ther, with some others, was starved for want of food. His maid servant
maried, & dyed a year or tow after, here in this place.
[Sidenote: 15.]
His servant, John Howland, maried the doughter of John Tillie,
Elizabeth, and they are both now living, and have 10. children, now all
living; and their eldest daughter hath 4. children. And ther 2.
daughter, 1. all living; and other of their children mariagable. So 15.
are come of them.
[Sidenote: 4.]
[Sidenote: 2.]
M^r. Brewster lived to very old age; about 80. years he was when he
dyed, having lived some 23. or 24. years here in y^e countrie; & though
his wife dyed long before, yet she dyed aged. His sone Wrastle dyed a
yonge man unmaried; his sone Love lived till this year 1650. and dyed, &
left 4. children, now living. His doughters which came over after him
are dead, but have left sundry children alive; his eldst sone is still
liveing, and hath 9. or 10 children; one maried, who hath a child or 2.
[Sidenote: 4.]
Richard More his brother dyed the first winter; but he is maried, and
hath 4. or 5. children, all living.
[Sidenote: 2.]
M^r. Ed: Winslow his wife dyed the first winter; and he maried with the
widow of M^r. White, and hath 2. children living by her marigable,
besids sundry that are dead.
[Sidenote: 8.]
One of his servants dyed, as also the litle girle, soone after the ships
arivall. But his man, Georg Sowle, is still living, and hath 8.
childr[=e].
[Sidenote: 4.]
William Bradford his wife dyed soone after their arivall; and he maried
againe; and hath 4. children, 3. wherof are maried.
[Sidenote: 8.]
M^r. Allerton his wife dyed with the first, and his servant, John Hooke.
His sone Bartle is maried in England, but I know not how many children
he hath. His doughter Remember is maried at Salem, & hath 3. or 4.
children living. And his doughter Mary is maried here, & hath 4.
children. Him selfe maried againe with y^e doughter of M^r. Brewster, &
hath one sone living by her, but she is long since dead. And he is
maried againe, and hath left this place long agoe. So I account his
increase to be 8. besids his sons in England.
[Sidenote: 2.]
M^r. Fuller his servant dyed at sea; and after his wife came over, he
had tow children by her, which are living and growne up to years; but he
dyed some 15. years agoe.
John Crakston dyed in the first mortality; and about some 5. or 6.
years after, his sone dyed; having lost him selfe in y^e wodes, his feet
became frosen, which put him into a feavor, of which he dyed.
[Sidenote: 4.] [EW] Captain Standish his wife dyed in the first sicknes,
and he maried againe, and hath 4. sones liveing, and some _are dead_.
M^r. Martin, he & all his, dyed in the first infection not long after
the arivall.
[Sidenote: 15.]
M^r. Molines, and his wife, his sone, and his servant, dyed the first
winter. Only his dougter Priscila survied, and maried with John Alden,
who are both living, and have 11. children. And their eldest daughter is
maried, & hath five children.
[Sidenote: 7.]
Mr. White and his 2. servants dyed soone after ther landing. His wife
maried with M^r. Winslow (as is before noted). His 2. sons are maried,
and Resolved hath 5. children, Perigrine tow, all living. So their
increase are 7.
[Sidenote: 5.]
[Sidenote: 4.]
M^r. Hopkins and his wife are now both dead, but they lived above 20.
years in this place, and had one sone and 4. doughters borne here. Ther
sone became a seaman, & dyed at Barbadoes; one daughter dyed here, and
2. are maried; one of them hath 2. children; & one is yet to mary. So
their increase which still survive are 5. But his sone Giles is maried,
and hath 4. children.
[Sidenote: 12.]
His doughter Constanta is also maried, and hath 12. children, all of
them living, and one of them maried.
[Sidenote: 4.]
M^r. Richard Warren lived some 4. or 5. years, and had his wife come
over to him, by whom he had 2. sons before dyed; and one of them is
maryed, and hath 2. children. So his increase is 4. But he had 5.
doughters more came over with his wife, who are all maried, & living, &
have many children.
[Sidenote: 8.]
John Billinton, after he had bene here 10. yers, was executed for
killing a man; and his eldest sone dyed before him; but his 2. sone is
alive, and maried, & hath 8. children.
[Sidenote: 7.]
Edward Tillie and his wife both dyed soon after their arivall; and the
girle Humility, their cousen, was sent for into England, and dyed ther.
But the youth Henery Samson is still liveing, and is maried, & hath 7.
children.
John Tillie and his wife both dyed a litle after they came ashore; and
their daughter Elizabeth maried with John Howland, and hath issue as is
before noted.
[Sidenote: 8.]
[Sidenote: 4.]
Francis Cooke is still living, a very olde man, and hath seene his
childrens children have children; after his wife came over, (with other
of his children,) he hath 3. still living by her, all maried, and have
5. children; so their encrease is 8. And his sone John, which came over
with him, is maried, and hath 4, chilldren living.
[Sidenote: 6.]
Thomas Rogers dyed in the first sicknes, but his sone Joseph is still
living, and is maried, and hath 6. children. The rest of Thomas Rogers
[children] came over, & are maried, & have many children.
Thomas Tinker and his wife and sone all dyed in the first sicknes.
And so did John Rigdale and his wife.
[Sidenote: 10.]
James Chilton and his wife also dyed in the first infection. But their
daughter Mary is still living, and hath 9. children; and one daughter is
maried, & hath a child; so their increase is 10.
[Sidenote: 4.]
Edward Fuller and his wife dyed soon after they came ashore; but their
sone Samuell is living, & maried, and hath 4. children or more.
John Turner and his 2. sones all dyed in the first siknes. But he hath a
daugter still living at Salem, well maried, and approved of.
[Sidenote: 4.]
[Sidenote: 1.]
Francis Eaton his first wife dyed in the generall sicknes; and he maried
againe, & his 2. wife dyed, & he maried the 3. and had by her 3.
children. One of them is maried, & hath a child; the other are living,
but one of them is an ideote. He dyed about 16. years 1. agoe. His sone
Samuell, who came over a sucking child, is allso maried, & hath a child.
Moyses Fletcher, Thomas Williams, Digerie Preist, John Goodman, Edmond
Margeson, Richard Britteridge, Richard Clarke. All these dyed sone after
their arivall, in the generall sicknes that befell. But Digerie Preist
had his wife & children sent hither afterwards, she being M^r. Allertons
sister. But the rest left no posteritie here.
Richard Gardinar became a seaman, and died in England, or at sea.
Gilbert Winslow, after diverse years aboad here, returned into England,
and dyed ther.
[Sidenote: 6.]
Peter Browne maried twise. By his first wife he had 2. children, who are
living, & both of them maried, and the one of them hath 2. children; by
his second wife he had 2. more. He dyed about 16. years since.
Thomas English and John Allerton dyed in the generall siknes.
John Alden maried with Priscila, M^r. Mollines his doughter, and had
issue by her as is before related.
Edward Doty & Edward Litster, the servants of M^r. Hopkins. Litster,
after he was at liberty, went to Virginia, & ther dyed. But Edward Doty
by a second wife hath 7. children, and both he and they are living.
Of these 100. persons which came first over in this first ship together,
the greater halfe dyed in the generall mortality; and most of them in 2.
or three monthes time. And for those which survied, though some were
ancient & past procreation, & others left y^e place and cuntrie, yet of
those few remaining are sprunge up above 160. persons, in this 30.
years, and are now living in this presente year, 1650. besids many of
their children which are dead, and come not within this account.
And of the old stock (of one & other) ther are yet living this present
year, 1650. nere 30. persons. Let the Lord have y^e praise, who is the
High Preserver of men.
* * * * *
[EX]Twelfe persons liveing of the old stock this present yeare, 1679.
Two persons liveing that came over in the first shipe 1620, this present
yeare, 1690. Resolved White and Mary Chusman,[EY] the daughter of M^r.
Allerton.
And John Cooke, the son of Frances Cooke, that came in the first ship,
is still liveing this present yeare, 1694; & Mary Cushman is still
living, this present year, 1698.
No. II.
[Commission for Regulating Plantations.]
Charles by y^e grace of God king of England, Scotland, France, and
Ireland, Defender of y^e Faith, &c.[EZ]
To the most Reve^d father in Christ, our wellbeloved & faithfull
counsellour, William, by devine providence Archbishop of Counterbery, of
all England Primate & Metropolitan; Thomas Lord Coventry, Keeper of our
Great Seale of England; the most Reverente father in Christ our
wellbeloved and most faithful Counselour, Richard, by devine providence
Archbishop of Yorke, Primate & Metropolitan; our wellbeloved and most
faithfull coussens & Counselours, Richard, Earle of Portland, our High
Treasurer of England; Henery, Earle of Manchester, Keeper of our Privie
Seale; Thomas, Earle of Arundalle & Surry, Earle Marshall of England;
Edward, Earle of Dorsett, Chamberline of our most dear consorte, the
Queene; and our beloved & faithfull Counselours, Francis Lord
Cottington, Counseler, and Undertreasurour of our Eschequour; S^r:
Thomas Edmonds, knight, Treasourer of our houshould; S^r: Henery Vane,
Knight, controuler of y^e same houshould; S^r: John Cooke, Knight, one
of our Privie Secretaries; and Francis Windebanck, Knight, another of
our Privie Secretaries,
Wheras very many of our subjects, & of our late fathers of beloved
memory, our sovereigne lord James, late king of England, by means of
licence royall, not only with desire of inlarging y^e teritories of our
empire, but cheefly out of a pious & religious affection, & desire of
propagating y^e gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ, with great industrie &
expences have caused to be planted large Collonies of y^e English
nation, in diverse parts of y^e world altogether unmannred, and voyd of
inhabitants, or occupied of the barbarous people that have no knowledg
of divine worship. We being willing to provid a remedy for y^e
tranquillity & quietnes of those people, and being very confidente of
your faith & wisdom, justice & providente circomspection, have
constituted you y^e aforesaid Archbishop of Counterburie, Lord Keeper of
y^e Great Seale of England, y^e Archbishop of Yorke, &c. and any 5. or
more, of you, our Comissioners; and to you, and any 5. or more of you,
we doe give and co[=m]ite power for y^e govermente & saftie of y^e said
collonies, drawen, or which, out of y^e English nation into those parts
hereafter, shall be drawne, to make lawes, constitutions, & ordinances,
pertaining ether to y^e publick state of these collonies, or y^e private
profite of them; and concerning y^e lands, goods, debts, & succession in
those parts, and how they shall demaine them selves, towards foraigne
princes, and their people, or how they shall bear them selves towards
us, and our subjects, as well in any foraine parts whatsoever, or on y^e
seas in those parts, or in their returne sayling home; or which may
pertaine to y^e clergie govermente, or to y^e cure of soules, among y^e
people ther living, and exercising trad in those parts; by designing out
congruente porcions arising in tithes, oblations, & other things ther,
according to your sound discretions, in politicall & civill causes; and
by haveing y^e advise of 2. or 3. bishops, for y^e setling, making, &
ordering of y^e bussines, for y^e designeing of necessary
ecclesiasticall, and clargie porcions, which you shall cause to be
called, and taken to you. And to make provission against y^e violation
of those laws, constitutions, and ordinances, by imposing penealties &
mulets, imprisonmente if ther be cause, and y^t y^e quality of y^e
offence doe require it, by deprivation of member, or life, to be
inflicted. With power allso (our assente being had) to remove, &
displace y^e governours or rulers of those collonies, for causes which
to you shall seeme lawfull, and others in their stead to constitute; and
require an accounte of their rule & govermente, and whom you shall finde
culpable, either by deprivation from their place, or by imposition of a
mulete upon y^e goods of them in those parts to be levied, or
banishmente from those provinces in w^ch they have been gove^r or
otherwise to cashier according to y^e quantity of y^e offence. And to
constitute judges, & magistrats politicall & civill, for civill causes
and under y^e power and forme, which to you 5. or more of you shall
seeme expediente. And judges & magistrats & dignities, to causes
Ecclesiasticall, and under y^e power & forme which to you 5. or more of
you, with the bishops vicegerents (provided by y^e Archbishop of
Counterbure for y^e time being), shall seeme expediente; and to ordaine
courts, pretoriane and tribunall, as well ecclesiasticall, as civill, of
judgmentes; to detirmine of y^e formes and maner of procceedings in y^e
same; and of appealing from them in matters & causes as well criminall,
as civill, personall, reale, and mixte, and to their seats of justice,
what may be equall & well ordered, and what crimes, faults, or exessess,
of contracts or injuries ought to belonge to y^e Ecclesiasticall courte,
and what to y^e civill courte, and seate of justice.
Provided never y^e less, y^t the laws, ordinances, & constitutions of
this kinde, shall not be put in execution, before our assent be had
therunto in writing under our signet, signed at least, and this assente
being had, and y^e same publikly proclaimed in y^e provinces in which
they are to be executed, we will & co[=m]and y^t those lawes,
ordinances, and constitutions more fully to obtaine strength and be
observed[FA] shall be inviolably of all men whom they shall concerne.
Notwithstanding it shall be for you, or any 5. or more of you, (as is
afforsaid,) allthough those lawes, constitutions, and ordinances shalbe
proclaimed with our royall assente, to chainge, revocke, & abrogate
them, and other new ones, in forme afforsaid, from time to time frame
and make as afforesaid; and to new evills arissing, or new dangers, to
apply new remedyes as is fitting, so often as to you it shall seeme
expediente. Furthermore you shall understand that we have constituted
you, and every 5. or more of you, the afforesaid Archbishop of
Counterburie, Thomas Lord Coventrie, Keeper of y^e Great Seale of
England, Richard, Bishop of Yorke, Richard, Earle of Portland, Henery,
Earle of Manchester, Thomas, Earle of Arundale & Surry, Edward, Earell
of Dorsett, Francis Lord Cottinton, S^r Thomas Edmonds,[FB] knighte, S^r
Henry Vane, knight, S^r Francis Windebanke, knight, our comissioners to
hear, & determine, according to your sound discretions, all maner of
complaints either against those collonies, or their rulers, or
govenours, at y^e instance of y^e parties greeved, or at their
accusation brought concerning injuries from hence, or from thence,
betweene them, & their members to be moved, and to call y^e parties
before you; and to the parties or to their procurators, from hence, or
from thence being heard y^e full complemente of justice to be exhibted.
Giving unto you, or any 5. or more of you power, y^t if you shall find
any of y^e collonies afforesaid, or any of y^e cheefe rulers upon y^e
jurisdictions of others by unjust possession, or usurpation, or one
against another making greevance, or in rebelion against us, or
withdrawing from our alegance, or our comandments, not obeying,
consultation first with us in y^t case had, to cause those colonies, or
y^e rulers of them, for y^e causes afforesaid, or for other just
causes, either to returne to England, or to comand them to other places
designed, even as according to your sounde discretions it shall seeme to
stand with equitie, & justice, or necessitie. Moreover, we doe give unto
you, & any 5. or more of you, power & spetiall co[=m]and over all y^e
charters, leters patents, and rescripts royall, of y^e regions,
provinces, ilands, or lands in foraigne parts, granted for raising
colonies, to cause them to be brought before you, & y^e same being
received, if any thing surrepticiously or unduly have been obtained, or
y^t by the same priviledges, liberties, & prerogatives hurtfull to us,
or to our crowne, or to foraigne princes, have been prejudicially
suffered, or granted; the same being better made knowne unto you 5. or
more of you, to co[=m]and them according to y^e laws and customs of
England to be revoked, and to doe such other things, which to y^e
profite & safgard of y^e afforesaid collonies, and of our subjects
residente in y^e same, shall be necessary. And therfore we doe co[=m]and
you that aboute y^e premisses at days & times, which for these things
you shall make provission, that you be diligente in attendance, as it
becometh you; giving in precepte also, & firmly injoyning, we doe give
co[=m]and to all and singuler cheefe rulers of provinces into which y^e
colonies afforesaid have been drawne, or shall be drawne, & concerning
y^e colonies themselves, & concerning others, y^t have been interest
therein, y^t they give atendance upon you, and be observante and
obediente unto your warrants in those affaires, as often as, and even as
in our name they shall be required, at their perill. In testimoney
wherof, we have caused these our letters to be made pattente. Wittnes
our selfe at Westminster the 28. day of Aprill, in y^e tenth year of our
Raigne.
By write from y^e privie seale,
WILLIES.
Anno Dom: 1634.