The Mayflower And Her Log, Complete, By Azel Ames


























































































































































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John Billington, Jr., is always first named of his father's two sons, and
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John Billington, Jr., Is Always First Named Of His Father's Two Sons, And Hence The Impression Prevails That He Was The Elder, And Bradford So Designates Him.

The affidavit of Francis Billington (Plymouth County, Mass., Deeds, vol.

I. p. 81), dated 1674, in which he declares himself sixty-eight years old, would indicate that he was born in 1606, and hence must have been about fourteen years of age when he came on the MAY-FLOWER to New Plymouth. If John, his brother, was older than he, he must have been born about 1604, and so was about sixteen when, he came to New England. The indications are that it was Francis, the younger son, who got hold of the gunpowder in his father's cabin in Cape Cod harbor, and narrowly missed blowing up the ship. John died before 1630. Francis lived, as appears, to good age, and had a family.

Moses Fletcher was of the Leyden company, a "smith," and at the time of his second marriage at Leyden, November 30/December 21, 1613, was called a "widower" and "of England." As he was probably of age at the time of his first marriage, - presumably two years or more before his last, - he must have been over thirty in 1620. He was perhaps again a widower when he came over, as no mention is made of his having wife or family. He was possibly of the Amsterdam family of that name. His early death was a great loss to the colony.

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