MAY APPLE 



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MAYFLOWER 



idols and sometimes offered human sacrifices. 

 They paid more attention to agriculture than 

 to warfare, and in this point differed from the 

 Aztecs, whom they resembled in many other 

 respects (see AZTEC) . 



MAY APPLE, an American herb of the bar- 

 berry family, appearing in wooded tracts in the 

 spring as a single, large-lobed, shield-shaped 

 leaf, and followed later by two similar leaves 

 having a large, pure white flower at their base. 

 It bears a yellow, egg-shaped fruit, edible but 

 with an unpleasant flavor. The root-stalk pro- 

 duces a drug of laxative properties. The May 

 apple is also called the mandrake (which see). 



MAY BEETLE. See JUNE BUG. 



MAYFLOWER, the name of the vessel in 

 which the Pilgrims sailed from Southampton, 

 England, to find homes and religious freedom 

 in the new world, in 1620. The Mayflower was 

 a vessel of 180 tons, and was chartered from 

 one Thomas Goffe, a shipping merchant of Lon- 

 don, who owned the vessel. In company with 

 her sister ship, the Speedwell, sne sailed from 

 Southampton on August 5, with 102 persons on 

 board, but the Speedwell proved unseaworthy 

 and had to return. After a stormy voyage of 

 sixty-three days the Pilgrims reached a harbor 

 which they called New Plymouth, on Decem- 

 ber 11, or December 21, according to the new 

 style calendar (see PILGRIMS) . 



The Honored 102. William Bradford, second 

 governor of. Plymouth, wrote a voluminous his- 

 tory of the Mayflower adventure (for particu- 

 lars see BRADFORD, WILLIAM). He gave a list of 

 the passengers, and after thirty years added an 

 appendix which accounted for each person after 

 that lapse of time. The names of those on the 

 Mayflower he wrote down as follows : 



The names of those which came over first, in ye 

 year 1620. and were by tke blessing of God the 

 first beginers and (in a sort) the foundation of 

 all the Plantations and Colonies in New-England ; 

 and their families. 



Mr. John Carver ; Kathrine, his wife ; Desire 

 Minter ; & 2. man-servants, John Rowland, Roger 

 Wilder ; William Latham, a boy ; & a maid serv- 

 ant, & a child yt was put to him, called Jasper 

 More. 



Mr. William Brewster ; Mary, his wife ; with 2. 

 sons, whose names were Love & Wrasling ; and a 

 boy was put to him called Richard More ; and an- 

 other of his brothers. The rest of his children 

 were left behind, & came over afterwards. 



Mr. Edward Winslow ; Elizabeth, his wife; & 

 2. men servants, caled Georg Sowle and Elias 

 Story ; also a little girle was put to him, caled 

 Ellen, the sister of Richard More. 



William Bradford, and Dorothy, his wife ; hav- 

 ing but one child, a sone, left behind, who came 

 afterward. 



Mr. Isaack Allerton, and Mary, his wife ; with 

 3. children, Bartholmew, Remember, & Mary; 

 and a servant boy, John Hooke. 



Mr. Samuell Fuller, and a servant, caled Wil- 

 liam Butten. His wife was behind, & a child, 

 which came afterwards. 



John Crakston, and his sone, John Crakston. 



Captin Myles Standish, and Rose, his wife. 



Mr. Christopher Martin, and his wife, and 2. 

 servants, Salomon Prower and John Langemore. 



Mr. William Mullines, and his wife, and 2. chil- 

 dren, Joseph & Priscila ; and a servant, Robart 

 Carter. 



Mr. William White, and Susana, his wife, and 

 one sone, aled Resolved, and one borne a ship- 

 bord, caled Peregriene ; & 2. servants, named 

 William Holbeck & Edward Thomson. 



Mr. Steven Hopkins, & Elizabeth, his wife, and 

 2. children, caled Giles, and Constanta, a dough- 

 ter, both by a former wife; and 2. more by this 

 wife, caled Damaris & Oceanus ; the last was 

 borne at sea ; and 2. servants, called Edward 

 Doty and Edward Litster. 



Mr. Richard Warren"; but his wife and children 

 were lefte behind, and came afterwards. 



John Billinton, and Elen, his wife ; and 2. sones, 

 John & Francis. 



Edward Tillie, and Ann, his wife ; and 2. chil- 

 dren that were their cossens, Henery Samson and 

 Humillity Coper. 



John Tillie, and his wife ; and Eelizabeth, their 

 doughter. 



Francis Cooke, and his sone John. But his 

 wife & other children came afterwards. 



Thomas Rogers, and Joseph, his sone. His 

 other children came afterwards. 



Thomas Tinker, and his wife, and a sone. 



John Rigdale, and Alice, his wife. 



James Chilton, and his wife, and Mary, their 

 dougter. They had an other doughter, yt was 

 married, came afterward. 



Edward Fuller, and his wife, and Samuell, their 

 sonne. 



John Turner, and 2. sones. He had a doughter 

 came some years after to Salem, wher she is now 

 living. 



Francis Eaton, and Sarah, his wife, and 

 Samuell, their sone, a yong child. 



Moyses Fletcher, John Goodman, Thomas Wil- 

 liams, Digerie Preist, Edmond Margeson, Peter 

 Browne, Richard Britterige, Richard Clarke, 

 Richard Gardenar, Gilbart Winslow. 



John Alden was hired for a cooper, at South- 

 Hamptqn, wher the ship victu.led ; and being a 

 hopfull yong man, was much desired, but left to 

 his owne liking to go or stay when he came here ; 

 but he stayed, and maryed here. 



John Allerton and Thomas Enlish were both 

 hired, the later to goe mr of a shalop here, and ye 

 other was reputed as one of ye company, but was 

 to go back (being a seaman) for the help of 

 others behind. But they both dyed here, before 

 the shipe returned. 



There were allso other 2. seamen hired to stay 

 a year here in the country, William Trevore, and 

 one Ely. But when their time was out, they both 

 returned. 



These, bening aboute a hundred sowls, came 

 over in this first ship ; and began this worke. 

 which God of his goodnes hath hithertoo blesed; 

 let his holy name have ye praise. 



