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(Gen 3) John GORHAM ~ Mary OTTIS
(Gen 4) John
GORHAM ~ Prudence CROCKER
(Gen 5) Benjamin GORHAM ~ Mary STURGIS
(Gen 6) Sturgis
GORHAM ~ Phoebe TAYLOR
(Gen 7) Mary Sturgis GORHAM ~ John PALFREY
(Gen 8) William Taylor PALFREY ~ (Sidney) Ann THURSTON
(Gen 9) Charles Conrad PALFREY ~ Frances C. Assherton BAKER
Mayflower Lineage by Jim Faber
A quarter of Americans believe that they are descendants of the 26 Englishmen who came over on the Mayflower, survived a harsh
winter and celebrated the first Thanksgiving at Massachusetts' Plymouth Colony in 1621, according to a recent Scripps-Howard
News Service/Ohio University poll.
But fewer than half of those who think they're descendants of the original Pilgrims can possibly be right. According to the
General Society of Mayflower Descendants, the best estimates indicate that more than 35 million people worldwide can count
at least one of those 26 Pilgrims as an ancestor. That's a huge number of descendants. But consider that one-quarter of the
US population would be roughly 70 million people, twice the total number of actual Mayflower descendants worldwide.
The society has only about 25,000 members who've been able to document their ancestry to meet modern research requirements.
(Click on the Mayflower Compact to view the Mayflower Passenger List)
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Music: A Clearing
Composed by: Andrew I. Mendelson, Scott P. Schreer
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