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]).