Surname Saturday ~ SOULE of the Mayflower

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George Soule (about 1593 – 1680), my 9^th 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 6^th 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.

The Soule Kindred (Soule family association)  https://soulekindred.org/   

Family Tree DNA project for George Soule:

https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=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]).