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I found out a few years ago my great, great......grandfather came over on The Fortune the first ship to arrive after the Mayflower. What, was he washing his hair when the Mayflower set sail?

 

My grandfather

 

http://www.bassettbranches.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I14816&tree=1A

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bassett_(d._1667)

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We've traced my great-great-great-etc grandfather to the 1630 crossing of the Arbella with Gov Winthrop of the MA Bay Colony.

 

Last month when I was in the UK for the Bills game my brothers and I visited the village he was from and drank at a pub there that dated to the 16th century.

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We've traced my great-great-great-etc grandfather to the 1630 crossing of the Arbella with Gov Winthrop of the MA Bay Colony.

 

Last month when I was in the UK for the Bills game my brothers and I visited the village he was from and drank at a pub there that dated to the 16th century.

I was blown away when I found out. I just googled my grandfather and found that site I linked. Kept going back and back and back. Very cool.

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It's estimated that 10% of Americans can trace lineage back to the Mayflower. That's over 30 Million people descended from 24 males who had children.

 

Are you aware of any lineage back to the first Thanksgiving?

 

Nope.

 

Jacques Cartier, though. So my ancestor beat the Mayflower by about 100 years.

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As far as I can research back my ancestors came over during revolutionary war. One Prussian worked for colonists and was awarded large track of land in western PA. One Hessian was mercenary for British and stayed behind rather than facing punishment for losing. Both had brides come from old country (Germanic states) come over after the war.

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We've traced my great-great-great-etc grandfather to the 1630 crossing of the Arbella with Gov Winthrop of the MA Bay Colony.

 

Last month when I was in the UK for the Bills game my brothers and I visited the village he was from and drank at a pub there that dated to the 16th century.

 

That would be so awesome, Some day I'm gona back to Ireland and do the same thing (I don't drink but I may have one out of respect)

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I was blown away when I found out. I just googled my grandfather and found that site I linked. Kept going back and back and back. Very cool.

 

Yes, very cool. My father did a lot of genealogy work before he died; we followed the lineage to Mystic, CT, found 18th and 19th century graves still intact and discovered one of the original houses in the Mystic seaport museum had been the residence of one of my ancestors.

 

http://www.mysticseaport.org/locations/village/burrows-house/

 

I really need to pick it up ; I'm sure there's so much more info online now than when my Dad was researching it.

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I found out a few years ago my great, great......grandfather came over on The Fortune the first ship to arrive after the Mayflower. What, was he washing his hair when the Mayflower set sail?

My grandfatherhttp://www.bassettbranches.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I14816&tree=1Ahttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bassett_(d._1667)

I hate to break it to you but the first ships to arrive after the Mayflower were the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

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little known fact, the titanic was on schedule to immediately follow the Mayflower, but it mistakenly turned left and headed towards Bermuda, the rest is history, they will never know what happened....

 

I hate to break it to you but the first ships to arrive after the Mayflower were the Pinta and the Santa Maria.

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