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James A. Garfield (Eliza Ballou, Mehitable Ingalls, Sybil Carpenter, Jotham Carpenter, Desire Martin, Mercy Billington, FRANCIS BILLINGTON, JOHN BILLINGTON)
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Billington, Francis Plymouth Colony, p.245 —The son of John and Eleanor Billington, Francis accompanied his parents on the 1620 Mayflower. See the three articles under his father for his probable English origin and his American descendants. When the Mayflower was anchored at Cape Cod, "one of Francis [sic, should be John] Billingtons Sonnes [presumably son Francis], who in his Fathers absence, had got Gun-powder, and had shot of a peice or two, and made scuibs, and there being a fowling peice charged in his fathers Cabbin, shot her off in the Cabbin, there being a little barrell of powder halfe full, scattered in and about the Cabbin, the fire being within foure foote of the bed betweene the Deckes, and many flints and Iron things about the Cabbin, and many people about the fire, and yet by Gods mercy no harme done" (Mourt's Relation, p. 15). The same source, p. 26, relates how Francis Billington climbed a tree and saw what appeared to be a great sea, but on close inspection it turned out to be a very shallow pond, which is called to this day the Billington Sea. He married widow of Francis Eaton Christian (Penn), in July 1634 (PCR 1:31).
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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, and hath 8 children. [p.409]
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John Billington
The Billington family may have originated from around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, England, where Francis Longland named young Francis Billington son of John Billington an heir. In 1650, a survey indicated that Francis Billington was then in New England. However, research has thus far failed to turn up any other records of the family's residence there.
The Billington family was Plymouth Colony's troublemakers. Just after arrival, young Francis Billington shot off his father's musket in the Mayflower's cabin, showering sparks around open barrels of gunpowder, nearly causing a catastrophe. A few months later in March 1621, father John was brought before the company for "contempt of the Captain's lawful command with opprobrious speeches", and was sentenced to have his neck and heels tied together: "but upon humbling himself and craving pardon, and it being the first offence, he is forgiven." Son John wandered off in May 1621, and was brought by Nauset Indians to Cape Cod, where he was later retrieved. In 1624, Billington was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal (a failed revolt against the Plymouth church), but played ignorant and was never officially punished for involvement. In 1625, Governor Bradford wrote a letter to Robert Cushman saying "Billington still rails against you, ... he is a knave, and so will live and die." In 1630, Billington shot and killed John Newcomen, they having been common enemies of one another for some time. Billington was tried by jury and hanged in September 1630 for the murder. In 1636, wife Eleanor (sometimes Helen) was sentenced to sit in the stocks and be whipped for slandering John Doane. Eleanor would later remarry to Gregory Armstrong in 1638.
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Mayflower Passenger
John Billington was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and was also the first man to be hanged for a crime in the Plymouth Colony.
John Billington (c. 1580- September 30, 1630) was the first Englishman,[1] to be convicted of murder in what would become the United States and the first to be hanged for any crime in New England.
He came to the Plymouth Colony on the famous voyage of the "Mayflower" in 1620 with his wife and two sons. He soon made enemies with many aboard the ship. He was known as a "foul mouthed miscreant" and "knave." He was not a member of the separatist Brownist congregation that dominated the colony's life, but rather, he fled England to escape creditors. His sons were also seen as troublemakers.
In March, 1621 Billington was convicted of contempt for insulting Captain Miles Standish. His punishment was to have his heels tied to his neck. Billington apologized profusely and was spared from the penalty.
In 1624, Billington became a follower of the Reverend John Lyford, who was banished from Plymouth Colony in 1625 for being a danger to the community. Though Billington was nearly convicted as Lyford's accomplice, he was permitted to remain in Plymouth Colony.
In September 1630, after a heated argument over hunting rights, Billington fatally shot fellow colonist John Newcomen in the shoulder with a Blunderbuss. After counseling with Governor John Winthrop, Governor William Bradford concluded that capital punishment was the necessary penalty. Billington was convicted of murder and hanged at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Mayflower Compact
John Billington was a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620, the first document in America to establish rule by the people.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
The following is a very careful letter-for-letter and line-by-line transcription made by me of the Mayflower Compact, as it is found in the original page of William Bradford's History Of Plymouth Plantation. Spelling and punctuation have not been modernized. The original from which this transcription was made can be seen in the graphic at the bottom of this page.
In ye name of God Amen· We whose names are vnderwriten,
the loyall subjects of our dread soueraigne Lord King James
by ye grace of God, of great Britaine, franc, & Ireland king,
defender of ye faith, &c
Haueing vndertaken, for ye glorie of God, and aduancemente
of ye christian ^faith and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to
plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia· doe
by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and
one of another, couenant, & combine our selues togeather into a
ciuill body politick; for ye our better ordering, & preseruation & fur=
therance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof, to enacte,
constitute, and frame shuch just & equall lawes, ordinances,
Acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought
most meete & conuenient for ye generall good of ye colonie: vnto
which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes
wherof we haue herevnder subscribed our names at Cap=
Codd ye ·11· of Nouember, in ye year of ye raigne of our soueraigne
Lord king James of England, france, & Ireland ye eighteenth
and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth. Ano: Dom ·1620·
SIGNERS:
John CarverEdward TilleyDegory PriestWilliam BradfordJohn TilleyThomas WilliamsEdward WinslowFrancis CookeGilbert WinslowWilliam BrewsterThomas RogersEdmund MargessonIsaac AllertonThomas TinkerPeter BrownMyles StandishJohn RigsdaleRichard BritteridgeJohn AldenEdward FullerGeorge SouleSamuel FullerJohn TurnerRichard ClarkeChristopher MartinFrancis EatonRichard GardinarWilliam MullinsJames ChiltonJohn AllertonWilliam WhiteJohn CrackstoneThomas EnglishRichard WarrenJohn BillingtonEdward DotyJohn HowlandMoses FletcherEdward LeisterStephen HopkinsJohn Goodman
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BIOGRAPHY: Mayflower passenger. DEATH: Hanged for the murder of John Newcomen. The only contemporary eyewitness account was written by William Bradford, "1630 - This year John Billington the elder, one that came over with the first, was arraigned, and both by grand and petty jury found guilty of wilful murder, by plain and notorious evidence. And was for the same accordingly executed. This, as it was the first execution amongst them, so was it a matter of great sadness unto them. They used all due means about this trial and took the advice of Mr. Winthrop and other the ablest gentlemen in Bay of the Massachusetts, that were then newly come over, who concurred with them that he ought to die, and the land to be purged from blood. He and some of his had been often punished for miscarriages before, being one of the profanest families amongst them; they came from London, and I know not by what friends shuffled into their company. His fact was that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomen, about a former quarrel and shot him with a gun, whereof he died." - Taken from Mayflower Families 5 Generations Vol. 21.
Sources for John Billington
1 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 21.
2 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 173-174, 609.
3 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1423.
4 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 29.
5 Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield, F.A.S.G., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 5.
6 Roberts, Gary Boyd, "No. 74 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Actor Richard [Tiffany] Gere", (accessed 10/10/2014).
7 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 95.
8 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 4, 255, 314, 370, 378, 585, 603, 682, 787.
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Record for Eleanor Bradford - THE BILLINGTON FAMILY - Eleanor - Mayflower and The Great Migration
THE BILLINGTON FAMILY
JOHN and his family (wife ELEANOR and sons John and FRANCIS) came over on the Mayflower and were part of the original Plymouth Colony. (Check out the Mayflower history page for details) Look at the details about JOHN BILLINGTON and you"ll seE that " The BILLINGTON FAMILY was Plymouth Colony’s troublemakers." JOHN was hung for murder in 1630 and his oldest son went missing before he died..
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According to the Crime and Punishment in the Plymouth Colony page. "The first person executed for murder was Mayflower passenger JOHN BILLINGTON, who was hanged in September 1630. He had gunned down John Newcomen, apparently the result of an ongoing quarrel." On a positive note ELEANOR was one of only five adult women to survive the first winter and only one of four to participate in the famous 1621 Thanksgiving. This is according ELEANOR'S Mayflower history page ..
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Three hundred and seventy-seven years ago this month (Sep 2007) Mayflower passenger, JOHN BILLINGTON, was hung for murder. He was, in fact, the first white man hung in North America. He was know as a ruffian and a "knave" fond of brawling and social turbulence. The Governor at the time, William Bradford, had an obvious distaste for the BILLINGTON FAMILY and wrote the following about JOHN BILLINGTON in The History of Plymouth Colony: "This year JOHN BILLINGTON the elder, one of those who came over first, was arraigned, and both by grand and petty jury found guilty of willful murder by plain and notorious evidence, and was accordingly executed. This, the first execution among them was a great sadness to them. They took all possible pains in the trial, and consulted Mr. Winthrop, and the other leading men at the Bay of Massachusetts recently arrived, who concurred with them that he ought to die, and the land be purged of blood. He and some of his relatives had often been punished for misconduct before, being one of the profanest families among them. They came from London, and I know not by what influence they were shuffled into the first body of settlers. The charge against him was that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomin, about a former quarrel, and shot him with a gun, whereof he died.".
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Four years after JOHN'S death, his son FRANCIS married CHRISTIAN PENN, who was born on September 2nd, 1613..
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This information can be found in Edward Winslow and John Billington for Five Generations contains the best, most thorough and completely researched genealogy on John and Eleanor Billington and their two children John and Francis. It covers every known descendant for the first five generations, to the birth of the sixth generation. This book is packed full of pure genealogical research. Published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. .
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Sources:.
1.) Mayflower Families: .
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0930270177/themayflowwebpag .
2.) Edward Winslow and John Billington for Five Generations .
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0930270045/themayflowwebpag.
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Eleanor
The Billington family may have originated from around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, England. Eleanor came to Plymouth on the Mayflower in 1620 with husband John, and children John and Francis. Eleanor was one of only five adult women to survive the first winter, and one of only four who was still alive to partake in the famous 1621 Thanksgiving.
Her family is remembered as rather ill-behaved, however. Just after arrival, young Francis Billington shot off his father's musket in the Mayflower's cabin, showering sparks around open barrels of gunpowder, nearly causing a catastrophe. A few months later in March 1621, husband John was brought before the company for "contempt of the Captain's lawful command with opprobrious speeches", and was sentenced to have his neck and heels tied together: "but upon humbling himself and craving pardon, and it being the first offence, he is forgiven." Son John wandered off in May 1621, and was brought by Nauset Indians to Cape Cod, where he was later retrieved. In 1624, husband John Billington was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal (a failed revolt against the Plymouth church), but he played ignorant and was never officially punished for involvement. In 1630, Eleanor's husband shot and killed John Newcomen, and he was hanged for the murder in September 1630. .
Eleanor herself was not exempt from ill-behavior, as she was sentenced to sit in the stocks and be whipped for slandering John Doane in 1636. Two years later Eleanor remarried, to Gregory Armstrong, but had no additional children. .
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viviloel0626 John Billington: Parts of this story are untrue.Billington shot in the sky and it hit something and then hit the Newcomber. The man was trespassing on John Billinton's land and hunting. John Billington was a Catholic and many of the Puritans held that against him.
19 Apr 2012
wetzupdoc1 I read that they had feuded in the past and that they found themselves hunting the same game and they started shooting at each other, apparently Billington being the better, or luckier, shot. What's a reliable source?
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Mayflower and The Great Migration
In the 1623 Plymouth land division, John Billington received 3 acres as a passenger on the Mayflower. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, John Billington Sr., Hellen Billington and Francis Billington were the eleventh through thirteenth persons in the 7th company, and John Billington Jr. was the 10th person in the 9th company. John Billington was born about 1582 based on estimated date of marriage. He was hanged in September 1630 at Plymouth. He was married by about 1607 to Elinor Bradford. She married the second time between the 14th and 21st of Sept in 1638 to Gregory Armstrong and was living as late as 2 March 1642/3..
Children of John and Elinor/Eleanor were: John, born about 1604, died in Plymouth between 22 May 1627 and Sept. 1630, and Francis, born about 1606 (deposed 10 July 1674 "68 years of age"), married in Plymouth in July 1634 to Christian Eaton. She was Christian Penn Eaton, widow of Francis Eaton..
In his list of passengers on the Mayflower, Bradford includes "John Billington and Ellen his wife, and two sons, John and Francis". In his 1651 accounting of the Mayflower families, Bradford reported that "John Billington, after he had been here ten years, was executed for killing a man, and his eldest son died before him but his second son in alive and married and hath eight children". (The man murdered by Billington was John Newcomen.).
In a Survey of 1650 for the manor of Spalding in Lincolnshire is a lease for three lives in which one of the lives is "Francis Billington son of John Billington." In describing the three lives involved, we are told that "Franscis Billington (as it is informed) was living about a year since in New England aged 40 years or thereabouts." The estimated age for Francis Billington is probably less accurate than his own deposition in 1674, but this record does provide an excellent clue for further research on the English origin of the family,..
The family of John Billington has been treated thoroughly by Harriet Woodbury Hodge in the 5th volume of the Five Generations Project of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, and she lists the many occasions on which John Billington or his sons were in trouble with the Plymouth authorities in the first decade of the colony's existence..
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Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, Provo, UT. (Database on-line. Original data R C Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33. Vol. 1-3. Boston MA, New England Historical Society
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- [S29] Ancestry- BILLINGTON, John- Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633.doc, ii FRANCIS, b. about 1606 (deposed 10 July 1674 "68 years of age".
ii FRANCIS, b. about 1606 (deposed 10 July 1674 "68 years of age" [MD 2:46, citing PCR 1:81]); in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 assessed 9s. [PCR 1:10, 27]; m. Plymouth __ July 1634 "Christian Eaton" [PCR 1:31]. She was CHRISTIAN (PENN) EATON, widow of FRANCIS EATON.
ii FRANCIS, b. about 1606 (deposed 10 July 1674 "68 years of age"
[MD 2:46, citing PCR 1:81]); in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 assessed 9s. [PCR 1:10, 27];
m. Plymouth __ July 1634 "Christian Eaton" [PCR 1:31].
She was CHRISTIAN (PENN) EATON, widow of FRANCIS EATON.
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Record for John Billington. John was the first person to commit a crime (in March 1621 he refused an order by Miles Standish), the first to commit murder and the first to be executed (in1630)
John was the first person to commit a crime (in March 1621 he refused an order by Miles Standish), the firsy to commit murder and the first to be executed (in1630)
- [S167] GEDCOM: 224075 Robert Kingsley d.1534, (Name: Cf also gen rep 224075 John BILLINGTON b1580.doc;), 224075.
2. FRANCIS2 BILLINGTON (JOHN1) He married CHRISTIANA PENN, daughter of GEORGE PENN and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN. Children of FRANCIS BILLINGTON and CHRISTIANA PENN are: 3. i. MARY3 BILLINGTON. ii. ELIZABETH BILLINGTON, b. 10 July 1635, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; m. (1) THOMAS PATTE; b. 1635; m. (2) RICHARD BULLOCK; b. 1635. 4. iii. JOSEPH BILLINGTON, b. Bef. 02 February 1636/37, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. iv. ELINOR BILLINGTON, b. Abt. 1638, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; m. SAMUEL (1) WARREN; b. 1638. 5. v. MARTHA BILLINGTON, b. Abt. 1638, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. Aft. 09 July 1704. 6. vi. ISAAC BILLINGTON, b. Abt. 1644, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. 11 December 1709, Middleboro, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. vii. DORCAS BILLINGTON, b. 1645, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1711; m. EDWARD MAY; b. 1645. viii. REBECCA BILLINGTON, b. 08 June 1647, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. ix. MERCY BILLINGTON, b. 25 February 1650/51, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; d. 28 September 1718, Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; m. JOHN MARTIN, 27 June 1681, Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; b. 1651. x. FRANCIS BILLINGTON, b. Abt. 1653, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; m. ABIGAIL CHURCHILL; b. 18 February 1679/80, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.
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Francis Billington
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Birth: About 1606, possibly near Spaulding, Lincolnshire. Mayflower Families: Edward Winslow and John Billington for Five Generations, contains the best, most thorough and completely researched genealogy on John and Eleanor Billington and their two children John and Francis. It covers every known descendant for the first five generations, to the birth of the sixth generation. This book is packed full of pure genealogical research. Published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
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Marriage:
Christian (Penn) Eaton, July 1634, Plymouth.
Death: 3 December 1684, Middleboro.
Children: Elizabeth, Joseph, Martha, Mary, Isaac, an unnamed child who died young, Rebecca, Dorcas, and Mercy.
Biographical Summary
The Billington family may have originated from around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, England. Francis Longland named young children Francis Billington son of John, and Francis Newton son of Robert, as heirs. In 1650, a survey of lands indicated that Francis was "about 40" and living in New England. Francis' himself stated in a 1674 deposition that he was 68 years old, so he was about 14 years old when he made the voyage on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620 with his parents John and Eleanor, and older brother John.
Francis was clearly an active and troublesome youth. He nearly caused a disaster onboard the Mayflower shortly after arrival, when he shot off his father's musket inside the Mayflower's cabin and sent sparks raining down near an open barrel of gunpowder. After he got to shore, he climbed up a tree and spotted a "great sea," which turned out to be a lake that even today is still known as "Billington's Sea". He and one of the Mayflower's crewmembers went to explore the sea, but became alarmed when they saw some abandoned Indian houses (they were alone with only a single gun).
Francis' father was hanged for murder in September 1630, and his brother John had died not to long before. In July 1634, Francis married Christian Eaton, the widow of Mayflower passenger Francis Eaton who had died the previous year autumn. Christian brought three of her own children, and one step-child from her deceased husband's previous marriage, all under the age of 14. With Francis Billington, she had nine more children. They raised their family at Plymouth, and moved in their later years to Middleboro, where they both died in 1684.
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ii FRANCIS, b. about 1606 (deposed 10 July 1674 "68 years of age" [MD 2:46, citing PCR 1:81]); in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 assessed 9s. [PCR 1:10, 27]; m. Plymouth __ July 1634 "Christian Eaton" [PCR 1:31]. She was CHRISTIAN (PENN) EATON, widow of FRANCIS EATON.
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•ID: I26218
•Name: John Billington Sr. (Mayflower) 1
•Name: John Bullington 2
•Name: "the Martyr" 3
•Sex: M
•Change Date: 03 MAY 2001
•Death: 1630 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
•Note: was hanged for the murder of John Newcomen ||[:CR:}
Plymouth Colony History and People:
Chapter Two: One of the Mayflower passengers, John Billington, was found guilty of wilful murder of a recent settler, appropriately named John Newcomen, and Bradford's government was not sure what the penalty should be. They consulted Governor Winthrop and other Bay Colony leaders. Perhaps Bradford was just being cautious, for fear of possibly looking too revengeful, since Billington, by his rebellious behavior over the years, had long made himself obnoxious to them, and thus they asked for concurrence of their new neighbor for the death penalty. The Bay Colony advised that Billington ought to die and the land be purged of blood, and Billington was hanged in September 1630.
Footnote: Bradford (Ford), 2:110-12, 136-40. There are but few details available on the Billington case, but we learn a bit more from William Hubbard, A General History of New England from the Discovery to MDCLXXX (Cambridge, 1815, 101, "About September, 1630, was one Billington executed at Plymouth for murther.…[Billington] maliciously slew his neighbour in the field, as he accidentally met him, as himself was going to shoot deer. The poor fellow, perceiving the intent of this Billington, his mortal enemy, sheltered himself behind trees as well as he could for a while; but the other not being so ill a marksman as to miss his aim, made a shot at him, and struck him on the shoulder, with which he died soon after. The murtherer expected that either for want of power to execute for capital offenses, or for want of people to increase the plantation, he should have his life spared; but justice otherwise determined." Though Hubbard's book was not published until 1815, he wrote it in the second half of the seventeenth century, and thus was contemporary with some people who would have remembered the Billington affair first hand. On the other hand, Thomas Morton, no friend to the Plymouth leaders, asserted in his whimsically written satire, New English Canaan (1637), 216, that "Auld Woodman," that is, Billington, "was choaked at Plimmoth after hee had played the unhappy Markes Man when hee was pursued by a carelesse fellow that was new come [a punning reference to John Newcomen] into the land," and he referred to Billington as "beloved of Many."[:CR:}
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•Birth: 1590 in Spaulding, Lincolnshire, England 2
•Immigration: 1620 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
•Note: aboard the "Mayflower" from London 4 5 6 3
•Event: Note
•Note: Savage 1, p 179: JOHN, Plymouth 1620, came in the Mayflower with w. Helen, and two s. John, wh. d. bef. his f. but after the div. of cattle in 1627, and Francis, bef. ment. He was hang. for murder in 1630, of John Newcomen. See Bradford's Hist. 276, and Winth. I. 36 4
•Event: Misc
•Note: was the 26th signer of the Mayflower Compact 5 3
•Event: Note
•Note:
English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers , p 31
JOHN BILLINGTON
BRADFORD states that John Billington came from London, but none of the existing parish registers furnish confirmatory evidence. A Lawrence Billington of St. Botolph's, Aldgate, died in 1590 (Arch. London, Act. Book 2/46a). There were Billingtons living in the parish of St. Mildred, Bread St., coopers, in 1640 (P. R. O. Subsidy 251/22), and in the Tithe Report of London Householders in 1638 a "Widow" Billington is listed as a tenant in the parish of All Hallows, Stayning (Lambeth MSS. Codex 272).
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•Note: Pope, Pioneers of Mass: John, London, came in the Mayflower; signed the Compact. Wife Ellen; sons John and Francis. He was executed for murder in 1630 5
•Event: Note
•Note:
Memoirs of Leonard, Thompson, Haskell, pp 212-213:
John Billington, born [apparently shoud read died] 1630, Mayflower Pilgrim, the 26th signer of the Mayflower Compact, the ancestor of Lydia Wood, who was the grandmother of our Grandfather Isaac, has been called Billington, the Martyr. He was hung for the alleged murder of John Newcomen, who was interfering with Billington's hunting and hid behind a tree. Billington shot probably to frighten him, but hit his shoulder, and the wound proved fatal for lack of scientific care. Billington's offense would now be passed over as accidental, or as homicide by misdirection. It is claimed that the accuser of Billington was his undisguised enemy and that what was put into the records was from this poisoned source. The Plymouth Court did not know what to do with Billington, who said with truth that the colony could not afford to lose a strong industrious worker. The case was referred to the Massachusetts Bay Court, which returned its verdict that "Billington should die and the land be purged from blood;" accordingly the Plymouth officials carried out the dread sentence, although doubtless with heavy hearts. This was the first execution in Plymouth Colony. Thomas Morton says of Billington, "He was beloved by many," and it should not be forgotten that this signer of the Mayflower Compact, over whose memory a cloud has hung for three hundred years, shared in the terrors of that first winter of the historic little Republic, which has set the pace for our country's development, and in all its early sacrifices, it has never been said of him that he was a coward or laggard. He was one of the seven well persons who tended the sick with the utmost faithfulness and kindness at that darkest point of the Colony's history, "performing duties which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named!" Posterity already doubts the wisdom of those who sent him to a felon's grave.
Annie Arnoux Haxtun comments as follows on Billington's fate, "The colonists were never without arms. Intuitively they sought them for every obstruction. There was the same wearing of arms on Newcomen's part and he might have fired the first shot as well as John Billington. I can but feel that his suffering the death penalty was the effect of the times. It is easy to imagine in the light of the present day a more lenient sentence."
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Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691, Part Three: Biographical Sketches
One of the non-Separatists on the 1620 Mayflower, John Billington increasingly got into trouble with the Plymouth leaders. In 1621 he was tried before the whole company for disobeying a lawful command of Capt. Myles Standish, and was sentenced to have his neck and heels tied together, but on humbling himself and craving pardon, and it being his first offence, he was forgiven (Bradford [Ford] 2:112 fn). In 1624 John Lyford named him as one of his supporters, but Billington denied it. In 1625 Bradford wrote to Robert Cushman, "Billington still rails against you, and threatens to arrest you, I know not wherefore; he is a knave, and so will live and die" (Bradford, Letter Book, p. 13). In September 1630 Billington was hanged for murdering John Newcomen. His wife was Eleanor or Ellen, and he arrived with her and their two sons, John and Francis. NEHGR 124:116 gives good evidence that his family probably came from around Spaulding, Lincolnshire. The most comprehensive study of his descendants is Robert S. Wakefield, "Some Descendants of Francis2 Billington of the Mayflower," TG 3:228-48. See also Harriet W. Hodge, "Desire Billington and Her Grandfather Francis Billington's Estate," MQ 52:137
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Marriage 1 Ellen ?? (Mayflower) b: 1592 in All Hallows Parish, Stayning, England •Married: 1605 in London, Greater London, England 1 2
Children 1. John Billington , Jr. b: 1605
2. Francis Billington (Mayflower) b: BET 1606 AND 1608 in (of), London, Greater London, England
Sources: 1.Title: GEDCOM File 22398.GED, Location: Ancestry World Tree, Url: http://data.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=email&ti=0&f0=22398
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Author: kobra@dmv.com
Publication: imported 27 Nov 1999
2.Title: FamilySearch® Ancestral File™, Url: http://www.familysearch.org
Abbrev: LDS FamSearch AF web
Author: Compiler: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Publication: © 1999
3.Title: Memoirs of the Leonard, Thompson & Haskell Families
Abbrev: Memoirs of the Leonard, Thompson & Haskell Families
Author: Goodenough, Caroline Leonard
Publication: Published By The Auther, 1928; COPYRIGHT 1928, AURSEY WARD GOODENOUGH; Printed atThe Antioch Press, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1928
Repository: Name: GenealogyLibrary.com
Page: pp 212-213
4.Title: Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, Volume: Vol. 1
Abbrev: Genealogical Dictionary, vol. 1
Author: Savage, James
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Company, Boston, 1860-62
Repository: Name: Ancestry.com
Page: p 179 (GL 116-117)
5.Title: The Pioneers of Massachusetts
Abbrev: Pioneers of Massachusetts
Author: Pope, Charles Henry
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1981 [originally published in 1900]
Repository: Name: Ancestry.com
6.Title: Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691
Abbrev: Plymouth Colony
Author: Stratton, Eugene Aubrey
Publication: Ancestry Incorporated, Salt Lake City, UT, 1986
Repository: Name: Ancestry.com
7.Title: The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers
Abbrev: English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers , p 31English Ancestry of the Pilgrim Fathers
Author: Banks, Charles Edward
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1929 - reprint 1962
Page: p 31
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•ID: I26216
•Name: Francis Billington (Mayflower) 1
•Sex: M
•Change Date: 04 DEC 1999
•Reference Number: 163
•Birth: BET 1606 AND 1608 in (of), London, Greater London, England 2 3 4
•Death: 13 DEC 1684 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 3
•Residence: BEF 1648 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 4
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Mems of Leonard, Thompson, Haskell, p 214:
Francis Billington, 1608-1684, soon after his landing from the Mayflower, saw from the top of a tall tree a large sheet of water which he thought was the sea, and so reported it. On January 8, 1621, one of the master-mates of the Mayflower took a musket and went with Francis to find the sea he had discovered, which is now called Billington Sea and consists of two beautiful fresh water lakes near Plymouth. Some contend that the mate would not have gone with Francis alone, who was a mere boy, and that probably the father, John, went along. In 1634, Francis, then twenty-six years old, married Christian Penn Eaton and the pair had eight children, most of whom they were obliged to "bind out;" their financial struggle doubtless increased by the ostracism and infamy surrounding the family. One son, Joseph, was placed with John Cooke, and on account of frequent absences at which his parents were supposed to have connived, the court ordered that in case of future truancies both parents should sit in the stocks on lecture days. In later life we find Francis serving on committees and boards of reference which suggest that he had redeemed his standing in the community and Goodwin who speaks coldly of the Billingtons yet has the justice to add that "some of their descendants became worthy members of society." Francis left land to his daughter Martha, who married first, Samuel Eaton, and second, Robert Crossman, of a prominent family.
There are few people in America today by the name of Billington. The daughters of this family changed their names--gladly probably--by marriage. The sons, it would seem, changed their names purposely, perhaps, to Billings, and so the family put their infamy as far away as possible. However on this as on so many other sad stories of the past, history has reconstructed its verdict which now reads, "Society is the Real Criminal."
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•Note: Savage 1, p 179: BILLINGTON, FRANCIS, Plymouth, younger s. of John, b. in Eng. m. 1634, Christian, wid. of Francis Eaton, rem. bef. 1648, to Yarmouth, and Gov. Bradford, in 1650, tells, that he had eight ch. Of them I can hardly name half, and the order is imperf. ascertain. One was, I presume, Rebecca, b. 8 June 1647; but older must have been Martha, wh. m. 10 Jan. 1661, Samuel Eaton; older than her, perhaps, was Isaac, one of the found. of the first ch. at Middleborough, wh. d. 11 Dec. 1709, aged 66; ano. whose name appears not on the rec. was b. 25 Feb. 1652; and Mary, wh. m. 27 June 1681, John Martin, perhaps as sec. w. 4
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Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691, Part Three: Biographical Sketches:
The son of John and Eleanor Billington, Francis accompanied his parents on the 1620 Mayflower. See the three articles under his father for his probable English origin and his American descendants. When the Mayflower was anchored at Cape Cod, "one of Francis [sic, should be John] Billingtons Sonnes [presumably son Francis], who in his Fathers absence, had got Gun-powder, and had shot of a peice or two, and made scuibs, and there being a fowling peice charged in his fathers Cabbin, shot her off in the Cabbin, there being a little barrell of powder halfe full, scattered in and about the Cabbin, the fire being within foure foote of the bed betweene the Deckes, and many flints and Iron things about the Cabbin, and many people about the fire, and yet by Gods mercy no harme done" (Mourt's Relation, p. 15). The same source, p. 26, relates how Francis Billington climbed a tree and saw what appeared to be a great sea, but on close inspection it turned out to be a very shallow pond, which is called to this day the Billington Sea. He married widow of Francis Eaton Christian (Penn), in July 1634 (PCR 1:31)
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Ancestry Hints for Francis Billington (Mayflower)
2 possible matches found on Ancestry.com
Father: John Billington Sr. (Mayflower) b: 1590 in Spaulding, Lincolnshire, England
Mother: Ellen ?? (Mayflower) b: 1592 in All Hallows Parish, Stayning, England
Marriage 1 Christian Penn b: 02 SEP 1613 •Married: 16 JUL 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts 6 5 2 3 1 5
Children 1. 2 additional children Billington b: BET 1634 AND 1650 in Plymouth, Plymouth, or, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
2. Joseph Billington b: BET 1634 AND 1650 in Plymouth, Plymouth, or, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
3. Elizabeth Billington b: ABT 1636 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
4. Martha Billington b: ABT 1640 in (probably), Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
5. Isaac Billington b: ABT 1643 in (probably), Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
6. Rebecca Billington b: 08 JUN 1647 in Plymouth, Plymouth, or, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
7. Mercy Billington b: 25 FEB 1651 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
8. ?? Billington b: 25 FEB 1652 in (probably), Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
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Author: kobra@dmv.com
Publication: imported 27 Nov 1999
2.Title: Memoirs of the Leonard, Thompson & Haskell Families
Abbrev: Memoirs of the Leonard, Thompson & Haskell Families
Author: Goodenough, Caroline Leonard
Publication: Published By The Auther, 1928; COPYRIGHT 1928, AURSEY WARD GOODENOUGH; Printed atThe Antioch Press, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1928
Repository: Name: GenealogyLibrary.com
Page: p 214
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Abbrev: LDS FamSearch AF web
Author: Compiler: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Publication: © 1999
4.Title: Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, Volume: Vol. 1
Abbrev: Genealogical Dictionary, vol. 1
Author: Savage, James
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Company, Boston, 1860-62
Repository: Name: Ancestry.com
Page: p 179 (GL 116)
5.Title: Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691
Abbrev: Plymouth Colony
Author: Stratton, Eugene Aubrey
Publication: Ancestry Incorporated, Salt Lake City, UT, 1986
Repository: Name: Ancestry.com
6.Title: Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, Volume: Vol. 2
Abbrev: Genealogical Dictionary, vol. 2
Author: Savage, James
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1965
Page: p 95 (GL 54)
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Arthur Lithgow, a producer and director who was a pioneer in American regional theater, specializing in Shakespeare, died March 23 at his home in Amherst, Mass. He was 88.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son, the actor John Lithgow.
Mr. Lithgow (pronounced LITH-go) first appeared onstage in December 1920 at age 5 as a cherub in a Christmas pageant at the Unitarian Church in Melrose, Mass. He made his New York City debut in November 1938 as a soldier in Jacques Deval ' s anti-Nazi drama, " Lorelei. "
But his long-lasting theatrical achievements came through his work in regional theater around the country, in creating new theater programs or taking charge of older ones.
He established the Antioch Shakespeare Festival, eventually known as Shakespeare Under the Stars, at his alma mater, Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1952; he was artistic director until 1957. By the early 1960s, it had moved and had grown into the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood, Ohio. He was the artistic director of the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., where he staged classic and original plays, from 1963 to 1971.
He later worked at the Brattleboro Center for the Performing Arts in Vermont, at the University of South Florida at Tampa, Fla., and in Ithaca, N.Y., where he was co-founder of the Ithaca Theater Guild.
At Antioch, Mr. Lithgow eventually put on productions of every play in the canon, sometimes running as many as seven in a season. Directing and acting in many of these productions, he played Petruchio in " The Taming of the Shrew " opposite Nancy Marchand ' s Kate, and also played Stephano, Peter Quince, Dr. Caius and Henry IV. The festival drew the praise of major reviewers of the day.
Arthur Washington Lithgow III was born on Sept. 9, 1915, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, the third child of Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an entrepreneur, and Ina Berenice Robinson Lithgow, a nurse. He graduated from public school in Melrose. At Antioch, Mr. Lithgow acted in student productions and received his B.A. in 1938.
He took an M.A. in playwriting at Cornell in 1948.
In 1939, he married Sarah Jane Price, an actress whom he had met at Antioch. She survives him, as do their four children,
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882)
This is a list of the 102 passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 - November 9, 1620, among them the 50 Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. The Mayflower launched with 102 passengers, as well as at least two dogs. One baby was born during the trip and named Oceanus Hopkins. Another, Peregrine (meaning "wanderer") White, was born on the Mayflower in America on November 20, before the settlement at Plymouth. About half of these emigrants died in the first winter. Many Americans can trace their ancestry back to one or more of these individuals.
[edit] Pilgrim Families
Provincetown memorial to Pilgrims who died in Provincetown Harbor
Allerton, Isaac
Mary (Norris) Allerton, wife (Newbury, Berkshire)[1]
Bartholomew Allerton, son (Leiden, Netherlands)
Remember Allerton, daughter (Leiden, Netherlands)
Mary Allerton, daughter (Leiden, Netherlands), the last survivor of the Mayflower company[2]
Bradford, William (Austerfield, Yorkshire)
Dorothy (May) Bradford, wife (Wisbech, Cambridgeshire)
Brewster, William (Doncaster, Yorkshire)
Mary Brewster, wife
Love Brewster, son (Leiden, Netherlands)
Wrestling Brewster, son (Leiden, Netherlands)
Carver, John
Catherine (Leggett) (White) Carver, wife (probably Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire)
Chilton, James (Canterbury)[2]
Mrs. Susanna Chilton, wife
Mary Chilton, daughter (Sandwich, Kent)
Cooke, Francis
John Cook, son (Leiden, Netherlands)
Cooper, Humility - (probably Leiden, Netherlands) baby daughter of Robert Cooper, in company of her aunt Ann Cooper Tilley, wife of Edward Tilley[3]
Crackstone, John (Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk)
John Crackstone, son
Fletcher, Moses (probably Canterbury, Kent)
Fuller, Edward (Redenhall, Norfolk)[2]
Mrs. Edward Fuller, wife
Samuel Fuller, son
Fuller, Samuel (Redenhall, Norfolk), (brother to Edward)
Goodman, John
Minter, Desire (Norwich, Norfolk)
Priest, Degory
Rogers, Thomas (Watford, Northamptonshire)
Joseph Rogers, son (Watford, Northamptonshire)
Sampson, Henry (Henlow, Bedfordshire) child in company of his uncle and aunt Edward and Ann Tilley[3]
Tilley, Edward (Henlow, Bedfordshire)
Ann (Cooper) Tilley (Henlow, Bedfordshire) wife of Edward and aunt of Humilty Cooper and Henry Sampson
Tilley, John (Henlow, Bedfordshire)
Joan (Hurst) (Rogers) Tilley, wife (Henlow, Bedfordshire)
Elizabeth Tilley, daughter (Henlow, Bedfordshire)
Tinker, Thomas
Mrs. Thomas Tinker, wife
boy Tinker, son
Turner, John
boy Turner, son
boy Turner, younger son
White, William
Susanna (Unknown) White , wife
Resolved White, son
Peregrine White, son (born in Provincetown Harbor)
Williams, Thomas, (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
Winslow, Edward (Droitwich, Worcestershire)
Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, wife
[edit] Planters recruited by London merchants
Billington, John (possibly Spalding, Lincolnshire)
Eleanor Billington, wife
John Billington, son
Francis Billington, son
Britteridge, Richard
Browne, Peter (Dorking, Surrey)
Clarke, Richard
Eaton, Francis (Bristol, Avon (historic: Somerset))
Sarah Eaton, wife
Samuel Eaton, son
Gardiner, Richard (Harwich, Essex)
Hopkins, Stephen (Upper Clatford, Hampshire)
Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins, wife
Giles Hopkins, son by first marriage (Hursley, Hampshire)
Constance Hopkins, daughter by first marriage (Hursley, Hampshire)
Damaris Hopkins, daughter
Oceanus Hopkins, born en route
Margesson, Edmund
Martin, Christopher (Billericay, Essex)
Mary (Prower) Martin, wife
Mullins, William (Dorking, Surrey)
Alice Mullins, wife
Priscilla Mullins, daughter
Joseph Mullins, son
Prower, Solomon (Billericay, Essex)
Rigsdale, John
Alice Rigsdale, wife
Standish, Myles (Chorley, Lancashire)
Rose Standish, wife
Warren, Richard (Hertford, England)
Winslow, Gilbert (Droitwich, Worcestershire), brother to "Pilgrim" Edward Winslow but not known to have lived in Leiden
[edit] Men hired to stay one year
Alden, John (Harwich, Essex) - considered a ship's crewman (he was the ship's cooper) but joined settlers
Allerton, John, was listed as a hired man but was apparently related to one of the Pilgrim families onboard, Isaac Allerton's, who all came from Leiden. He sailed in order to settle in North America, and was to return to England to help the rest of the group immigrate, but died during the first winter of the Pilgrims' settlement, may have been relative of "Pilgrim" Allerton family.[4]
Ely, Richard, hired as seaman, returned to England after term was up but later returned to New England and died there. He is mentioned briefly as a sailor by name of Ely in "Of Plymouth Plantation."
English, Thomas, hired to master a shallop but died in the winter
Trevore, William, hired as seaman, returned to England after term was up
[edit] Family servants
Thirteen of the 18 people in this category were attached to Pilgrim families, the other five were attached to Non-Pilgrim families.
Butten, William, age: "a youth", servant of Samuel Fuller, only person who died during the voyage
Carter, Robert, age unknown, servant or apprentice to William Mullins, shoemaker.
--?--, Dorothy, maidservant of John Carver.
Doty, Edward, (possibly Lincolnshire) age probably about 21, servant to Stephen Hopkins
Holbeck, William, age likely under 21, servant to William White
Hooke, John, (probably Norwich, Norfolk) age 13, apprenticed to Isaac Allerton
Howland, John (probably Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire), age about 21, manservant for Governor John Carver
Lancemore, John (probably Shropshire or Worcestershire), age under 21, servant to the Christopher Martin
Latham, William, age 11, servant/apprentice to the John Carver family
Leister, Edward (Kensington), aged over 21, servant to Stephen Hopkins
Moore, Ellen, (Shipton, Shropshire), age 8, indentured to Edward Winslow
Jasper More, (Shipton, Shropshire), brother, age 7, indentured to John Carver
Richard, (Shipton, Shropshire), brother, age 6, indentured to William Brewster
Mary, (Shipton, Shropshire), sister, age 4, indentured to William Brewster
Soule, George, teacher of Edward Winslow's children
Story, Elias, age under 21, in the care of Edward Winslow
Thompson, Edward, age under 21, in the care of the William White family, first passenger to die after the Mayflower reached Cape Cod.
Wilder, Roger, age under 21, servant in the John Carver family
In all, there were 102 passengers on the Mayflower - 74 men and 28 women
[edit] Carpenters
Kerr, George
[edit] Animals
At least two dogs are known to have participated in the settling of Plymouth. In Mourt's Relation Edward Winslow writes that a female mastiff and a small springer spaniel came ashore on the first explorations of what is now Provincetown. There may have been other animals on the Mayflower, but none are mentioned.[3]
[edit] See also
List of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620 - 1621
The Mayflower Society
[edit] References
^ Locations of birth for Mayflower passengers follow Caleb Johnson's list as found at Mayflower History.com, accessed August 29, 2006
^ a b Division of passengers by category generally follows Appendix I of Saints and Strangers by George F. Willison with the following exceptions, as per The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, Passengers on the Mayflower: Ages & Occupations, Origins & Connections [1], 2000, Patricia Scott Deetz and James F. Deetz: The families of James Chilton and Edward Fuller, brother of "saint" Samuel Fuller as well as Thomas Williams, are now known to have been living at Leiden and cannot fit the category of recruited by London merchants and have been listed with the Pilgrims. Significant scholarship has produced many new documents since Willison's 1945 publication.
^ a b Humility Cooper and Henry Sampson were both children who joined their uncle and aunt Edward and Ann Tilley for the voyage. Willison lists them as "strangers" because they were not members of the church at Leiden; however, as children they would have been under their aunt and uncle who were members of that group.
^ "MayflowerHistory.com". MayflowerHistory.com. http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/JohnAllerton.php. Retrieved on 2009-05-15.
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Mayflower passengers from William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, 1650.
List of passengers on the Mayflower
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Wikipedia with Pictures
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http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/enquirer/billington.htm Billington: Not a Bradford Favorite! cf Notes.- jcw 29.02.2012
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Billington: Not a Bradford Favorite!
John Billington, his wife Elinor, and two adolescent sons, John and Francis were passengers on the Mayflower. Billington, who was not one of the Leyden group, became a Mayflower Passenger at Southampton. Ten years later he was executed for the murder of "one John Newcomen. . ." (Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, V, 31+)
It seems that nearly all that we know of the Billingtons comes from Governor William Bradford's references to the family, and, for good reason or not, it is evident that he felt a hearty dislike for the family.
Billington troubles are noted from the start. While still on board ship in Provincetown Harbor, one of the young sons (unknown) fired a gun near an open half-keg of gun powder posing a near disaster for the ship and passengers. Of this Bradford writes "and yet, by God's mercy, no harm done." (MF5G V:31) In 1621 Billington was sentenced to have his neck and heels tied together for "oppribrious" speeches against Miles Standish. "Craving pardon," he was forgiven." (MF5G V:32)
On a more cheerful note, Francis Billington, shortly after the settlement of Plymouth, climbed to the top of a tree on a hilltop and discovered two lakes known from then until now as "Billington Sea." (Actually I think this was John Billington, his brother- jcw 29.02.2012)
Bradford's writings, however, continue to present Billington as contentious, unmanageable and undesirable. In a 1625 letter to Robert Cushman in England (Governor Bradford's Letter Book,MD V:79, New-Plymouth, June 9, 1625), Bradford writes: "Billington still rails against you, and threatens to arrest you, I know not wherefore; he is a knave, and so will live and die." [Mr. "Cusksnan" died before this letter arrived.]
Finally, in the only known eyewitness account, Bradford relates (Bradford History MF5G V:33) that in 1630 "John Billington the elder, one that came over with the first, was arraigned, and both by grand and petty jury found guilty of wilful murder, by plain and notorious evidence. And was for the same accordingly executed . . ." " He and some of his had been often punished for miscarriages before, being one of the profanest families amongst them; they came from London, and I know not what friends shuffled into their company. His fact was that he waylaid a young man, one John Newcomen, about a former quarrel and shot him with a gun, whereof he died."
Upon his death he left his wife Eleanor (Elinor) and son Francis -- his son John having died previously. About eight years later, his wife would remarry a Gregory Armstrong.
Son Francis married Christian Penn Eaton in 1634, widow of Pilgrim Francis Eaton. She brought to the marriage three children Rachel, Benjamin and another of unknown name. Together they had an additional nine children.
In 1642 (Records of the Town of Plymouth 1:12) numerous of the children were put out. "Concerneing the placeing and disposing of ffrancis Billingtons children according to the Act and order of the Court:
"It is ordered and agreed upon that John Cooke the yonger shall have Joseph until hee shalbe of the age of twenty and one years (being now about vi or vii years old) and fynd him meat drink and apparell during the said terme."
One can imagine the psychological hurt of a young child being put out of his home, and it is noted in the records that as a child (MF5G V:39) "he (Joseph) repeatedly ran away from his master to return to his parents; in July 1643 he and they were sternly admonished." This Joseph, who is later found at Block Island, was apparently considered lazy and shiftless. He is repeatedly ordered in the town records to go to work and support his family.(NEHGR 105:179, Notes on Block Islanders of Seventeenth Century.) A probable son Elisha is cited as having following his father's shiftless ways. (NEHGR: 106:105, Two Block Island Documents)
It is ordered that Benjamin Eaton his eldest Boy shalbe with John Winslow upon these conditions untill he shall accomplish the age of xxi years being about xv years in march next . . ."
It is ordered and agreed also that Gyles Rickett shall take another of his children a gerle aboute five years of age and shall keepe her and find her meat drink and apparell . . ."
It is ordered and agreed likewise That Gabriell ffallowell shall have another of his children a gerle about ______ years of age . . ."
Tragedy seemed to follow some members of the early family. A surviving daughter Elizabeth, one of those apprenticed out, married first Richard Bullock in 1660, Rehobeth, who died in 1667. She married second in 1673 a Robert Beere who was killed by the Indians in March of 1676. She married third Thomas Patey/Patte of Providence who drowned in the Seekonk River 1695. (MF5G V:37,38).
Sources:
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, V, John Billington, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1991
Records of the Town of Plymouth, Volume 1, 1636-1705, Plymouth, Avery & Doten, Book and Job Printers, 1889.
New England Historic and Genealogical Register, V 105,106.
Mayflower Descendant,Volume V, Editor,George Ernest Bowman, Published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants.
For additional information on this family visit the Mayflower Site
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- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Francis Eaton
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1606 - 1684 (78 years)
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