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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.
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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.
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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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Plymouth Colony, p.245 -The wife of John Billington, Eleanor was with him in 1620 on the Mayflower. Her maiden name is not known, though some have speculated that it might have been Newton, since her son Francis inherited land in Lincolnshire, England, with a co-heir named Newton. However, Billington researcher Harriett Hodge thinks that the surname could be Longland. On 1636 Eleanor was fined £5 and sentenced to sit in the stocks and be whipped for slandering John Doane (PCR 1:42). She was married between 28 August 1638 and 21 September 1638 to (2) Gregory Armstrong (PCR 12:33. 37), but there is no record of her having any children by him.
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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.
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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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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)
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List of passengers on the Mayflower
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
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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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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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John "Billington" BULLINGTON (AFN: 4J3T-XS) Birth: 1590 Spaulding, Lincolnshire, England Death: 1 Sep 1630 New Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma Burial: Sep 1630 , , Massachusetts Parents: Father: Mr "Billington" BULLINGTON (AFN: QT3D-LJ) Mother: Mrs. BILLINGTON (AFN: 1R41-TL6) Mother: Mrs "Billington" BULLINGTON (AFN: 1P1H-Z6V) Marriage(s): Spouse: Helen Or Ellen NEWTON?LONGLAND? (AFN: 4J3T-Z0) Marriage: 1605 London, London, England Spouse: Eleanor Helen Elen ARMSTRONG (AFN: VLG1-83) Marriage: 1605 , , England Spouse: Eleanor ELINOR (AFN: 1P1H-Z1T) Marriage: Bef 1605 England
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cf World Family Tree, vol 11, Ed. 1: tree #1599
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Date of Import: 22 May 2001 ...................... (199)
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she married (2) between 14 and 21 September 1638 Gregory Armstrong and was living as late as 2 March 1642/3 [MF 5:34].
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she married (2) between 14 and 21 September 1638 Gregory Armstrong and was living as late as 2 March 1642/3 [MF 5:34].
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1582 - Abt 1643 (61 years)
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