Professor Arberl Finds But Six Of The Pilgrim Merchant Adventurers Who
Later Were Among The Adventurers With Winthrop's Company Of Massachusetts
Bay, Viz.:
- Thomas Andrews, John Pocock, Samuel Sharpe, Thomas Goffe,
John Revell, John White.
He should have added at least, the names of Richard Andrews and Robert
Keayne, and probably that of Richard Wright.
Of their number, Collier, Hatherly, Martin, Mullens, Thomas, and
(possibly) Wright were Plymouth colonists Martin and Mullens, as noted,
being MAY-FLOWER Pilgrims. Nathaniel Tilden, a brother of Joseph Tilden
of the Adventurers, came, as previously mentioned, to the Colony from
Kent, settling at Scituate. Joseph, being apparently unmarried, made his
nephew, Joseph of Scituate, his residuary legatee, and his property
mostly came over to the Colony.
Collier, Hatherly, and Thomas all located within a few miles of one
another, were all wealthy and prominent men in the government of the
Colony, were intimate friends, - the first and last especially, - and lent
not a little dignity and character to this new dependency of King James
the First. The remaining twenty or thereabouts whose names are not
surely known - though a few of them are pretty safely conjectured, some
being presumably of the Holland Pilgrims and their friends - were probably
chiefly small contributors, whose rights were acquired from time to time
by others of larger faith in the enterprise, or greater sympathy or
means. Not all, however, who had ceased to hold their interests when the
"Composition" was made with Allerton in behalf of the colonists, in 1626,
were of these small holders.
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