SOULE / SOOLE / SOLE /
George Soule (about 1593 – 1680), my 9th great
grandfather, was a passenger on the ship Mayflower in 1620. He was then a young, unmarried man, and a
servant of Edward Winslow. He signed the
Mayflower Compact.
George’s wife, Mary Buckett, arrived on the ship Anne in
1623. They were married around 1625, and
by the time of the May 1627 Cattle Division he was listed with Mary and their
first son, Zachariah as the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth people in the
ninth company. They removed to “Duxburrow”
or Duxbury where he lived for the rest of his life and is buried there. During his life he served as deputy, on the
grand jury, and other civic positions appointed at town meetings. He had nine children.
I descend from George’s son, John (about 1632 – 1707) who
apparently had a family rift with his sister, Patience. In George’s 1677 will he recorded “If my son John Soule above named or his
heirs or assigns or any of them shall at any time disturb my daughter Patience
or her heirs or assigns or any of them in peaceable possession or enjoyment of
the lands I have given her at Nemasket alias Middleboro and recover the same
from her or her heirs or assigns or any of them; that then my gift to my son
John Soule shall be void: and that then my will is my daughter Patience shall
have all my lands at Duxbury and she shall be my sole executrix of this my last
will and testament and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxbury.”
John married Rebecca Simmons and had
nine children.
John’s daughter, Rebecca (1656 – 1732) is my 6th
great grandmother. She married Edmund
Weston about 1688 and had six children.
Notable descendants: actors
Richard Gere and Dick Van Dyke
For more SOULE information:
The Great Migration Begins, by Richard Charles Anderson, 1995, Volume
III, pages 1704-1708
Note: Anderson
reports “serious flaws” in the Mayflower Families Through Five
Generations, Volume Three: George Soule, 1980. He recommends two articles which point out
the problems in The Genealogist,
Volume 1, pages 225 – 258, and also in The
American Genealogist, Volume 57, pages 57 – 58.
Family Tree DNA project for George Soule:
My SOULE genealogy:
Generation 1: George
Soule, born about 1593, died 22 January 1679/80 in Duxbury, Massachusetts; married
about 1623 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to Mary Beckett. She was born about 1602 and died 16 December
1676 in Duxbury. Nine children.
Generation 2: John
Soule, born about 1632 in Plymouth, died before 14 November 1707 in Duxbury;
married about 1654 in Duxbury to Rebecca Simmons, daughter of Moses Simmons and
Sarah Unknown. She died before 1678 in
Duxbury. Nine children
Generation 3: Rebecca
Soule, born about 1656 in Duxbury, died 18 November 1732 in Plympton, Massachusetts;
married about 1688 to Edmund Weston, son of Edmund Weston. He was born about 1660 and died 23 September
1727 in Plympton. Six children.
Generation 4: Nathan Weston m. Desire Standish (granddaughter of two other Mayflower passengers - Myles Standish and Edward Doty)
Generation 5: Nathan
Weston m. Hannah Everson
Generation 6: Zadoc
Weston m. Mary Clements
Generation 7: Matilda
Weston m. Joseph Edwin Healy
Generation 8: Mary
Etta Healey m. Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 9:
Florence Etta Hoogerzeil m. Arthur Treadwell Hitchings
Generation 10: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer
Allen
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ SOULE of the
Mayflower”, Nutfield Genealogy,
posted September 15, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/surname-saturday-soule-of-mayflower.html: accessed [access date]).
I, too, descend from George Soule and Mary Beckett, through their son Nathaniel. George and Mary are my 10th-great-grandparents.
ReplyDeleteHeather, We share yet another ancestor - George Soule. Randy Seaver is also a cousin. :)
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