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Friday, August 30, 2019

Seen at the Mayflower House


Last week I was at the Mayflower Society house in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a meeting. Before the meeting started I took a few minutes to peek around the house (it was my first visit!) and take a few photographs.  The rooms are beautifully decorated with memorabilia and displays. 



This piece of paper was on a table display inside the Mayflower House.  It caught my eye because I'm an Emerson descendant, too!  Perhaps you can make a cousin connection through one of the surnames listed here, too.



My 2x great grandmother, Mary Katharine Emerson (1847 - 1932) was a cousin to Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Here are their common ancestors:

Generation 1:  Thomas Emerson married Elizabeth Brewster
Generation 2:  Joseph Emerson m. Elizabeth Bulkely
Generation 3:  Peter Emerson m. Mary Brown        (brothers)     Edward Emerson m. Rebecca Waldo
Generation 4:  Brown Emerson m. Sarah Townsend                    Joseph Emerson m. Mary Moody
Generation 5:  John Emerson m. Katherine Eaton                       William Emerson m. Phebe Bliss
Generation 6:  Romanus Emerson m. Jemima Burnham             William Emerson m. Ruth Upham 
Generation 7:  George Emerson m. Mary Esther Younger            Ralph Waldo Emerson (1805 - 1882)
Generation 8:  Mary Katharine Emerson (my 2x great grandmother, 4th cousin once removed from the poet)

I also have a second Emerson lineage from Thomas Emerson and Elizabeth Brewster, through their daughter Elizabeth (1623 - 1700) who married John Fuller.

Here is Ralph Waldo Emerson's Mayflower lineage:

Generation 1:   John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley (both were Mayflower passengers)
Generation 2:   Hope Howland and John Chipman  (my 9th great grandparents)
Generation 3:   Lydia Chipman and John Sargent  (I descend from her sister Hannah)
Generation 4:   Lydia Chipman Sargent and Joseph Waite, Jr.
Generation 5:  Hannah Waite and Phineas Upham
Generation 6:  Hannah Upham and John Haskins
Generation 7:  Ruth Haskins and William Emerson
Generation 8:  Ralph Waldo Emerson

(this was an entirely female lineage, so Ralph Waldo Emerson carried Elizabeth Tilley's mitochondrial DNA!)

My lineage from Hope Howland and John Chipman (Generation 2):

Generation 3:  Hannah Chipman and Thomas Huckins
Generation 4:  Hope Huckins and Benjamin Hamblin
Generation 5:  Hannah Hamblin and Jonathan Crosby
Generation 6:  Ebenezer Crosby and Elizabeth Robinson
Generation 7:  Rebecca Crosby and Comfort Haley
Generation 8: Joseph Edwin Healy and Matilda Weston
Generation 9: Mary Etta Healey and Peter Hoogerzeil
Generation 10:  Florence Etta Hoogerzeil and Arthur Treadwell Hitchings
Generation 11: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandmother)

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To Cite/Link to this post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Seen at the Mayflower House", Nutfield Genealogy, August 30, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/seen-at-mayflower-house.html: accessed [access date]).

2 comments:

  1. I've been able to trace my lineage to Elizabeth Brewster Emerson and Thomas Emerson, but I've read conflicting accounts as to whether or not this Elizabeth was a passenger on the Mayflower or that she was the same Elizabeth Brewster that was Governor William Brewster. I'd love any help you can give me would be give me.

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    1. The Elizabeth Brewster who married Thomas Emerson was not a passenger on the Mayflower, nor was she related to Governor William Brewster of the Mayflower. You can read the Silver book published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants to see the family of Gov. Brewster.

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