Mayflower Society

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants — commonly called the Mayflower Society — is a hereditary organization of individuals who have documented their descent from at least one of the 102 passengers who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620 at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Society was founded at Plymouth in 1897.

Organization

A primary goal of the Society is to educate the public about the role of the Pilgrims in the early history of what would later become the United States of America. There are Mayflower societies in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada.

Today, it is estimated that up to tens of millions of Americans have at least one ancestor who was among this group of early settlers. Any person able to document their descent from one or more of the Mayflower Pilgrims is eligible to apply for membership in the Mayflower Society. The General Society of Mayflower Descendants is listed as an approved lineage society with the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.

List of Pilgrims with known descendants

This is a list of Mayflower Pilgrims who are known to have living descendants:

Notable members

• Sarah Gertrude Banks, American physician and activist
• Ada Brown, American judge
• Anna Matilda Larrabee, American social leader
• Harriet Wright O'Leary (1916–1999) first woman elected to serve on the Choctaw National Council and one-time governor of the Oklahoma Mayflower Society chapter.
• Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American intellectual

Museum

In 1941 the Society purchased the Edward Winslow House in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The mansion home was originally built in 1754 by the great-grandson of Edward Winslow, third Governor of Plymouth Colony. The Society operates the home as the Mayflower House Museum, an 18th-century historic house museum with period decorations and furnishings. The offices and library of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants are located behind the mansion.

See also

• List of Mayflower passengers

Notes

External links

• Official website
• A Guide to the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Texas Records, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries (UTSA Libraries) Special Collections.
• The Mayflower Pub London The original mooring point of the Pilgrim Fathers’ Mayflower ship in Rotherhithe, London and the oldest pub on the River Thames
• The Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America

1. Mayflower
2. List of Mayflower passengers
3. Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
4. Plymouth Colony
5. William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)
6. Mayflower Compact
7. Edward Fuller (Mayflower passenger)
8. John Howland
9. Richard More (Mayflower passenger)
10. John Carver (governor)
11. Mayflower II
12. Edward Doty
13. Robert Cushman
14. List of hereditary and lineage organizations in the United States
15. Edward Winslow
16. Peregrine White
17. Francis Eaton (Mayflower passenger)
18. Christopher Reeve
19. List of Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620–21
20. Susanna White (Mayflower passenger)