Pilgrim Genealogies and Histories, 1600s-1900s

In 1620, seeking religious freedom, a small group of Pilgrims set sail from England determined to establish a colony in the New World. The ship that they chartered, the Mayflower, has been estimated to be only about 113 feet long. Despite its small size, the ship managed to accommodate some 102 passengers.

During their extensive journey, they endured many trials and experienced many joys. Among the challenges was the death of a group member and a Pilgrim who fell overboard. However, they happily welcomed the birth of a baby to join in their adventure. It took the Mayflower sixty-six days to make the 2,750 mile voyage from Plymouth, England to the New World. In the end, the captain steered the group much farther north than they had planned landing them at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Ultimately, they settled in an area protected by a small harbor and called it Plymouth.

The books indexed and compiled in this data set detail the lives of these courageous settlers and their descendants. Comprehensive in their coverage of early New England settlers, the resources that make up this data set are also expertly sourced.

What you'll find:

• Biographical sketches of early settlers
• Connections between New England settlers and their native parishes
• Essays on life in the early colonies and the Pilgrims' reasons for emigration
• Lineage records from Mayflower descendants
• Names and descriptions of family members
• Occupation
• Dates of vital events
• General characteristics
• Images of the pages of twenty historical and genealogical volumes about Mayflower passengers and their descendants

Copyright information for each volume can be found on its copyright page. If you wish to cite information found in one of this data set's volumes, we recommend using the following format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Book Title." Place of Publication: Publisher. Copyright Date. Page Numbers. Reproduced on Genealogy.com's Online Data Set #023 (Pilgrim Genealogies and Histories, 1600s-1900s).

Books Included in this Data Set

The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers

The Planters of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts, 1620-1640

Topographical Dictionary of 2,885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650

The Winthrop Fleet of 1630

The Mayflower Reader: A Selection of Articles from 'The Mayflower Descendant'

Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families

Signers of the Mayflower Compact

History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters, 2 Volumes

A Catalogue of the Names of The First Puritan Settlers of The Colony of Connecticut

Mayflower Descendants and Their Marriages for Two Generations After the Landing

Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Volumes I-III

Records of Plymouth Colony Births, Deaths, Burials, and Other Records, 1633-1689

The Truth about the Pilgrims

Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth from 1602 to 1625

Cape May County Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants, 1620-1920

Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service

Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495 To 1932) & Mayflower Descendants