John Crackston Mayflower

William Bradford, wrote in 1651, Crackston and his son John embarked on the Mayflower. John Crackston and his son left Plymouth. She was the last survivor of those who left England in the Mayflower] 27. John Hooke, a servant boy. He died, in the first sickness. John Crackston [Crakston] jun.

Contents • • • • • • English origins [ ] His birth year of about 1575 is based on his daughter’s marriage date. He is believed to have come to Holland from in co.,.

In the 1618 marriage record of his daughter Anna, she is noted in records as being a spinster from Colchester. In Leiden [ ] The name of John Crackston, English Separatist residing in Leiden Holland, first appears in Leiden records on June 16, 1616, when, along with future fellow Mayflower passenger, they being witnesses to the betrothal of Zachariah Barrow. Leiden records also state that on May 19, 1617, he was the groom’s witness for the betrothal of Henry Collet to Alice Thomas.

Crackston’s daughter Anna (Anne) married Thomas Smith in Leiden on December 12, 1618, to which he is also recorded as being a witness. At her wedding she was accompanied by her friend Patience Brewster, later to be a Mayflower passenger in the family of her father,. Patience was to die of a fever In Plymouth in 1634 as the first wife of colony governor Thomas Prence. Mayflower voyage [ ]. Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by 1899 In 1620 John Crackston came to the Mayflower with the Leiden contingent in the company of his son John.

It is believed that his wife, name unknown, may have been deceased and therefore the reason his son was with him on the voyage without his mother. His daughter Anna had married in 1618 and did not accompany them., writing 1651, recorded Crackston and his son embarked on the Mayflower: “John Crakston, and his sone, John Crakston.” The Mayflower departed from, aboard the Mayflower on September 6/16, 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30-40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship‘s timbers to be badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill.

This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the way there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter. On November 9/19, 1620, after about three months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called. And after several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11/21. John Crackston was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact.

His son John Jr. Was apparently not yet twenty-one years of age and did not sign the Compact. Family of John Crackston [ ] Crackston may have married sometime prior to 1600, probably in England where his wife also may have died, as there is no mention of her in Leiden records. Her name is unknown. Children of John Crackston and _______: • Anna (Anne) Crackston was born about 1600, probably in Colchester, co.

Essex, England. She married Thomas Smith, presumed to be English, in Leiden on December 22, 1618. No descendants of this marriage have been identified. • John Crackston (Jr.) was born about 1602, also presumably in England. He never married. He is believed to have died of a fever in the winter 1627-1628 brought on by frostbite caused by being lost in the forest.

Per Bradford, John Crackston Jr. Died five or six years after their arrival on the Mayflower although it was probably later than that as he appears in the 1627 Division of Cattle, appearing as “John Crakstone” with the family.

His name also appeared in the 1623 Division of Land as “John Crackston” with the family. It is believed that John Crackston Jr. Died sometime after the 1627 Division of Cattle, possibly the next winter.

His burial place is unknown. Death and burial of John Crackston [ ] John Crackston (Sr.) died sometime in the winter of 1620, per among the first Mayflower passengers to die, although a later date is also given. The exact date is unknown. As with most passengers who died that winter, he was most likely buried in an unmarked grave in Burial Ground, Plymouth. He is memorialized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb on Coles Hill as “John Craxston Sr.” In 1651, William Bradford recollected about the fate of John Crackston and his son John: “John Crakston dyed in the first mortality, and about some *5* or *6* years after, his sone dyed; having lost him selfe in the wodes, his feet became frosen, which put him into a feavor, of which he dyed.” References [ ]. • ^ A genealogical profile of John Crackston, (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society accessed 2013) (PDF).

Archived from (PDF) on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2012-04-12. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., copyright 2006 Caleb Johnson), p. • ^ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 274 • Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (New York: Grafton Press, 1929), p. 50 • Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 406 • ^ Eugene Aubrey Stratton.

Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 413 • Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., copyright 2006 Caleb Johnson), pp. 144, 147 • George Ernest Bowman, The Mayflower Compact and its signers, (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920), Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document, pp. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., copyright 2006 Caleb Johnson), pp 130-131 • Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620-1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), pp 274; 415-416; 421-422 •.

Contents • • • • • • Life in England [ ] John Tilley was baptised on 19 December 1571 at Henlow, co. Bedford, England. He was the eldest child of Robert Tilley and his wife Elizabeth. John had a younger brother, Edward, who also came on the Mayflower with his wife. John Tilley, his brother Edward and their wives all perished that first winter in the New World. There are few records of John Tilley's life in England.

His name appears in the will of George Clarke of Henlow, dated 22 September 1607, which notes that Thomas Kirke, then residing with Tilley, owed money to him. There is a record of a John Tilley, yeoman, residing at Wooton, Bedfordshire, who made a disposition on 7 April 1613 with his age stated as 40 years, which would probably make him the Mayflower passenger of that name.

There is little information about the lives of John Tilley and his wife Joan. John Tilley was documented as a member of the congregation as well as his brother.

Edward's ward may also have been a member. On the Mayflower and in the New World [ ].

Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by 1899 Per William Bradford's later recollection of this family on the Mayflower: 'John Tillie, and his wife; and Elizabeth, their daughter.' The Mayflower departed, England on 6/16 September 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30–40 in extremely cramped conditions.

By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship's timbers to be badly shaken with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill. This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, attributed to what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children.

On the way there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter. On 9/19 November 1620, after about three months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called.

After several days of trying to get south to their planned destination of the, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbour at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on 11/21 November. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day. John Tilley was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact, as was his brother, Edward. In the [ ] Both John Tilley and his brother Edward were involved in the early exploring expeditions of the Cape Cod area in November and December 1620, with both suffering the effects of being ill-clad and wet in freezing temperatures.

It may be that they died from the effects of the exploration weather. One such extensive exploration in which the John and Edward Tilley are named as having taken part began on Wednesday, 6 December 1620 in freezing weather using the ship's shallop – a light, shallow-water boat with oars and sails navigated by two pilots and crewed by a master gunner and two sailors.

The Pilgrims on board for this expedition, in addition to the Tilleys, were John Howland, Stephen Hopkins and his servant Edward Doty. Senior members on the expedition included John Carver, William Bradford, militia captain Myles Standish and Edward Winslow.

The number of persons on this exploration was less than half of a prior expedition due to many having been felled by illness. As was recorded: '.very cold and hard weather. In which time two were sick. The gunner also sick unto death.” This exploration would not turn out well for the English in their first encounter with Indians as they found that slow-firing muskets were no match for rapid-fire arrows. This Indian challenge to the Pilgrims was later known as the 'First Encounter.' John Tilley and his wife Joan both died the first winter, as did his brother Edward and his wife Ann.

The only Tilley surviving from the Mayflower was John’s thirteen-year-old daughter,, who went on to marry John Howland and raise a large family. Family and children [ ] John Tilley married Joan (Hurst) Rogers, widow of Thomas Rogers (no relation to the Mayflower passenger of that name) on 20 September 1596 at Henlow in Bedfordshire. Joan Hurst was the younger daughter of William Hurst, and was baptised on 13 March, 1567/8 at Henlow making her a little older than John. Joan came to the marriage with a daughter Joan, born of her marriage to Thomas Rogers, whom she married on 18 June 1593.

Joan was baptised 26 May 1594, and Rogers seems to have died shortly afterwards. Child of Joan (Hurst) and Thomas Rogers • Joan Rogers was baptised on 26 May 1594.

There is no further record and she may have died young, likely sometime after her mother’s 1596 marriage to John Tilley. Children of John and Joan Tilley – all baptised in Henlow, Bedfordshire They had five children baptised in the parish of Henlow between 1597 and 1607. Of their children, only Elizabeth, baptised 30 August 1607, and who accompanied them on the Mayflower, is a known survivor. The fate of the others is unknown.

• Rose Tilley (1) was baptised on 23 October 1597 and may have died young. No further record. • John Tilley was baptised on 26 August 1599, died 1636 in Saybrook, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colony • Rose Tilley (2) was baptised on 28 February, 1601/2 and may have died young. No further record.

• Robert Tilley was baptised on 25 November 1604 and may have died young. No further record.

• Elizabeth Tilley was baptised on 30 August 1607 and died in Swansea on 22 December 1687. She married in Plymouth Colony about 1624 and had ten children. Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland's family is described in a later recollection of William Bradford: (Gov. Carver’s) '.servant John Howland, married the doughter of John Tillie, Elizabeth, and they are both now living, and have *10* children, now all living; and their eldest daughter hath *4* children. And ther *2* daughter, one, all living; and other of their children mariagable.

So *15* are come of them.' Death, burial and memorial of John Tilley and wife Joan [ ] William Bradford described the demise of John and Joan Tilley: “John Tillie and his wife both dyed a little after they came ashore; and their daughter Elizabeth married with John Howland, and had issue as is before noted.” John and Joan Tilley died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621, possibly after coming ashore, per Bradford, to the new Plymouth settlement. They were buried in Burial Ground in Plymouth, most likely in unmarked graves as with so many who died in that first winter. Their names, along with others who perished that winter, are memorialised on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb on Coles Hill as 'John Tilley and his wife.' References [ ]. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., 2006), p. 237 • ^ A genealogical profile of John Tilley, (a collaboration of Plimoth Plantation and New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Retrieved 2013) • Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (New York: Grafton Press, 1929), p. Kanye West Graduation 320 Kbps Downloads. 88 • Pilgrim Hall Museum for • Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 406 • ^ Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 413 • George Ernest Bowman, The Mayflower Compact and its signers (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1920), Photocopies of the 1622, 1646 and 1669 versions of the document, pp. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., 2006), p. 235 • Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community and War, (New York: Viking 2006), pp.

70–73 • ^ Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers, (Indiana: Xlibris Corp., 2006), pp. 237–238 • Charles Edward Banks, The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers (New York: Grafton Press, 1929), p. 87 • Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1986), p. 407 • Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History and People, 1620–1691, (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing 1986), p. 409 • Memorial for John Tilley • William Bradford. History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth (Boston: 1856), p.

The Society of Mayflower Descendants:: Connecticut Mayflower Compact Before coming to the New World, the Pilgrims had lived in Leyden, Holland from 1608 to 1620. While there, they absorbed the liberating influences of Dutch society and shifted toward a more democratic form of self-governance.

As the passengers aboard the Mayflower journeyed across the Atlantic, tensions arose among the three factions: the Separatists seeking religious freedom, the merchant-adventurers seeking their fortune, and the crew seeking their livelihood. It became apparent that if these passengers were to survive in an alien land,they needed to consent voluntarily to a cooperative form of government.Thus it was that The Mayflower Compact came into being and was signed by the adult male passengers in November, 1620. While the language of Shakespeare's day might seem quaint to us today, the spirit of democracy set forth in this famous document is timeless. The Mayflower Compact 'In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God,of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc.