Shirley, In A Letter To Governor Bradford, Mentions A Mr. Fogge And A Mr. Coalson, In A Way To Indicate That They Might Have Been, Like Himself, Collier, Thomas, Hatherly, Beauchamp, And Andrews, Also Of The Original Merchant Adventurers, But No Proof That They Were Such Has Yet Been Discovered.

It has been suggested that Sir Edwin Sandys was one of the number, at the inception of the enterprise, but - though there is evidence to indicate that he stood the friend of the Pilgrims in many ways, possibly lending them money, etc.

- There is no proof that he was ever one of the Adventurers. It is more probable that certain promoters of Higginson's and Winthrop's companies, some ten years later, were early financial sponsers of the MAY-FLOWER Pilgrims. Some of them were certainly so, and it is likely that others not known as such, in reality, were. Bradford suggests, in a connection to indicate the possibility of his having been an "Adventurer," the name of a "Mr. Denison," of whom nothing more is known. George Morton of London, merchant, and friend of the leaders from the inception, and later a colonist, is sometimes mentioned as probably of the list, but no evidence of the fact as yet appears. Sir George Farrer and his brother were among the first of the Adventurers, but withdrew themselves and their subscriptions very early, on account of some dissatisfaction.

It is impossible, in the space at command, to give more than briefest mention of each of these individual Adventurers.

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