I've just learned that I'm part of a family of direct descendants of the Pilgrims.

Neat.

will you dress differently?

really that is cool

:hi:

:rofl:

:hi:

On your shoes and your hat.

but I'm not. I went to seminary with two people who are, though. I do have an ancestor who fought with Ethan Allen.

Your family news is cool

And thanks! :hi:

:shrug:

And Reformed which is what we Calvinists call ourselves--Calvin didn't approve of the word "Calvinist"--and Calvin isn't the only influence on our faith. There's Zwingli, Bullinger, Butzer and others.

I'm UCC, the same as Barack Obama. So,. I'm also secretly a Muslim :)

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I remember the first time we met. She felt some need to go on and on about how the E&Rs had ruined the UCC and the UCC should never have formed, etc., etc. She seemed to feel awkward when I introduced myself and told her I'm a member of "St. Peter's Evangelical UCC". I warned her that just being in New England wasn't a guarantee that everyone was Congregationalist.

Made a bad impression of the NACCC for me. Since then, I haven't had much contact with them.

a different drummer. These days, we are a congregation that is in a rather large transition period.

:hi:

dg

:hi:

I am too. We could be related. Heh heh.

John Alden:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alden_%28Pilgrim%29

It's all your fault you know...

Uh huh huh huh huh huh.

Paraphrasing Beavis and Butthead to Mr. Anderson

I'm a direct descendant of Pharoah Ramses III. Along with 3 billion other people.

:shrug: ;) ;) ;)

You'd be surprised how many Mayflower descendants exist on DU. My ancestors are John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley (GW Bush is also a descendant of this union). John Howland was a manservant known for the fact that he fell OFF the Mayflower at sea and was only saved when he caught a halyard and pulled himself up. He grew to be one of the most respected members of the colony. Elizabeth Tilley was just a girl when she came with her family to the New World -- a family that was wiped out the first winter. An orphan then, she was sheltered in the home where John served his master. She is said to have excelled at housewifery, and nursed many of the sick. They eventually had a good brood of children, and prospered.

I hope you can go to Plimoth Plantation some day to see how they lived and died.

Edward Doty. He was later a freeman and the plaintiff or defendant in dozens of lawsuits.

Plimoth Plantation is fun, although the Rock is a letdown.

Edward Doty is the name of a character in C.S. Forster's Horatio Hornblower series of adventure novels. Doty is Capt. Hornblower's steward who gets caught up in international intrigues with the French. As he's a favorite of the captain, he's 'gifted' with the opportunity to escape to America as the manservant of the (separated) American wife of Napoleon Bonaparte's little brother.

Things that make you go 'hmmmm...'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alden_%28Pilgrim%29

Nice lineage of descendants, excepting (argh! garh!) Dan Quayle.

"Potato"

:hi:

Neat information. Genealogy makes us realize how we're all part of a very big family.

I just don't know much about geneology or how many came after the Pilgrims. I have no idea if this is interesting or out of the unusual or as vanilla as vanilla can be.

Methinks that I've made myself silly yet once again. :shrug:

posting before coffee

I'm decended from John Alden and Priscilla Mullens.

:D

I can't remember which one though.

dg

It's in a display case along with a model ship of it. :hi:

(kidding) It is Colonial Church, in Edina, a suburb of Minneapolis:

Now that'd be something. (shuffles off)

Well, good luck, pilgrim.



:)

both sides of my family came over in 1636 to the Mass Bay Colony.

What with the marriage pool being what it is back then, and how many people I am directly related to, going back that many generations, ..... thousands. I would say that I would have to be descended in one of those lines from one of them Pilgrim type peoples.

...(*pause*)...Forgivest me, me thinks I saw a witch.

The 1620 and 1632 Pilgrims were all Puritans, though only the Plymouth people were seperatists. Of course, there weren't all pilgrims. Most of those settling the South were not.

Maybe you mean the founders of Rhode Island who were essentially trying to escape from the Mass. Puritans.

The Puritans, who settled in the Boston area and north, were still members of the Anglican Church. They were also more prosperous and of a different socio-economic class than the Pilgrims of the Plymouth area.

The Pilgrims were Brownists, who had separated from the Anglican church well before leaving England. They were also more working class than the Puritans, and were more extreme in their theology in England. They could be more challenging of the status quo--they had less to lose than the Puritans.

And the settlers of Rhode Island were Baptists.

My peeps came from the 1620 group.

I mean, you know, that YOU are a direct descendant of the pilgrims, not me.

...if her family came over on the Mayflower. 'Oh no,' she replied, 'we came over on the second boat. We sent our servants on that.'"

---from Cleveland Amory's "Who Killed Society?", published in 1960. As a direct descendant of some who came over on the Mayflower, I have always cherished that quote!