I loved Momma --but what most of you that knew her don't know was that she could be quite a snob at times. She was very proud of having the lineage to be a DAR member and even prouder of being a Daughter of the Texas Revolution BUT she was the proudest of being a descendant of the Mayflower. YES that is correct I am a direct descendant of the Pilgrims. She was a member of the Pilgrim Doty Society which was all the descendants of this pilgrim. After all these years---there are quite a few of us.
When reading her material--I made the following discoveries---which I gave her a hard time about till she left us:
1. Pilgrim Doty was the first man put in stocks in the New World.
2. He came over as an indentured servant---because he lacked the funds to pay his fare.
3. When he finally married, his wife had the first pre-nup in the New World.
NO WONDER---we are who we are--
A little naughty
Basically Middle Class
Liberated--Independents
BUT still we did come over on the Mayflower!
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Did you know that your children have Puritan/pilgrim ancestry through Papa Conville's mother whose maiden name was Blanchard and descendant of a Puritan and a pilgrim? Based on research via ancestry.com, Richard Brockett is my 8th great- grandfather, b. 1610 - St. Peter, Sudbury, England; d. 1690 – Braintree, Norfolk, MA; was a captain and a deacon, Immigrant to America as a Puritan and took the oath in Boston, May 25, 1636. His daughter Hannah Brockett, my 7th great- grandmother, b. 1634 – Braintree, Norfolk, MA, d. 1706 – Braintree, Norfolk, MA; married John Blanchard, my 7th great- grandfather, in 1663, b. 1631; d. 1700. Hannah was born in Norfolk, MA a 1st generation pilgrim. Amazing!
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