The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 484 pages of information about The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete.

The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 484 pages of information about The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete.

—–­ Ely (not Ellis, as Arber miscalls him, “The Story of the Pilgrim
     Fathers,” p. 377) was the other of the “two seamen hired to stay a
     year,” etc.  He also returned when his time expired. (Bradford,
     Hist.  Mass. ed. p. 534.) He did not sign the Compact, probably for
     the reason operative in .Trevore’s case.  A digest of the foregoing
     data gives the following interesting, if incomplete, data (errors
     excepted):—­

Adult males (hired seamen and servants of age included)... 44
Adult females (including Mrs. Carver’s maid).............. 19
Youths, male children, and male servants, minors.......... 29
Maidens, female children.................................. 10
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102
Married males............................................. 26
Married females........................................... 18
Single (adult) males (and young men)...................... 25
Single (adult) females (Mrs. Carver’s maid)...............  1

Vocations of adults so far as known (except wives, who are presumed housekeepers for their husbands):—­

Carpenters.............................................
... 2 Cooper.................................................... 1 Fustian-worker and silk-dyer.............................. 1 Hatter.................................................... 1 Lay-reader................................................ 1 Lady’s-maid............................................... 1 Merchants................................................. 3 Physician................................................. 1 Printers and publishers................................... 2 Seamen.................................................... 4 Servants (adult).......................................... 10 Smith..................................................... 1 Soldier................................................... 1 Tailor.................................................... 1 Tradesmen................................................. 2 Wool-carders.............................................. 2

Allowing for the addition of Wilder and the two sailors, Trevore and Ely, who did not sign it, the number of those who signed the Compact tallies exactly with the adult males.  Besides these occupations, it is known that several of the individuals representing them were skilled in other callings, and were at some time teachers, accountants, linguists, writers, etc., while some had formerly practised certain handicrafts; Dr. Fuller, e.g. having formerly been a “silk-worker,” Brad ford (on the authority of Belknap), a “silk-dyer,” and others “fustian-workers.”  Hopkins had apparently sometime before dropped his character of “lay-reader,” and was a pretty efficient man of affairs, but his vocation at the time of the exodus is not known.

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