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

[Fire Walk With Me]

Neat.

[SPKrazy]

1. cool

will you dress differently?

really that is cool

:hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Yeah, I'd better get some new clothes!

:rofl:

:hi:

[Sanity Claws]

3. You need buckles, big ones.

On your shoes and your hat.

[SPKrazy]

28. and a big hat

[Critters2]

4. My faith tradition is the religious descendants of the Pilgrims,

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

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Neat!

And thanks! :hi:

[JVS]

13. I thought you were a Methodist and the Pilgrims were Calvinists?

:shrug:

[Critters2]

32. Nope. I'm UCC.

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 :)

[quip]

14. Hey, me, too!

:hi:

[Critters2]

34. You're UCC? nt

[quip]

38. We are affiliated with the UCC and the NACCC

[Critters2]

40. I went to seminary with an NACCC woman.

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.

[quip]

41. Actually, our affiliation is rather loose with both orgs. We've always marched to the beat of

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

[WolverineDG]

5. Hi cousin!

:hi:

dg

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Hello Cuz!

:hi:

[flvegan]

8. Be afraid.

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

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Is there room for two black sheep?

John Alden:

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

[Critters2]

33. Geez, those Pilgrims were a prolific bunch! nt

[ileus]

9. Now give all your land to a Native American...LOL

It's all your fault you know...

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. That was..uh...other pilgrims.

Uh huh huh huh huh huh.

Paraphrasing Beavis and Butthead to Mr. Anderson

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. You and 80 million+ other people

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

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. You're forgetting that I'm better. Just better.

:shrug: ;) ;) ;)

[grasswire]

11. what is the name of the Mayflower ancestor?

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.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. I've been to Plimoth. My ancestor was an indentured servant and troublemaker,

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.

[LanternWaste]

26. Edward Doty is the name of a character in Forster's Horatio Hornblower series

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...'

[Fire Walk With Me]

21. John Alden.

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

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

"Potato"

[OzarkDem]

24. You're from the branch that can spell, eh?

:hi:

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

[Fire Walk With Me]

48. No, but I know enough to attempt to use the spellchecker...

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:

[OzarkDem]

25. dupe

posting before coffee

[BarenakedLady]

44. Then we are related!

I'm decended from John Alden and Priscilla Mullens.

:D

[Fire Walk With Me]

47. I don't know a thing about geneology. I wonder how many degrees of separation exist here?

[WolverineDG]

23. One of the Fullers

I can't remember which one though.

dg

[quip]

15. That is neat. We have a hunk of the Mayflower on display in our church.

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

[Deep13]

30. Where is that? nt

[quip]

31. Oh, it's right in our gathering room

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

[Robb]

16. Eh. Thought you said penguins.

Now that'd be something. (shuffles off)

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Wait, I have happy feet...

[jeff30997]

17. Think back, pilgrim... Remember?

Well, good luck, pilgrim.



:)

[kwassa]

27. I probably am, too

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.

[Deep13]

29. Thou art in distinguished...

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

[Critters2]

35. That was the Puritans. Different people. nt

[Deep13]

36. You're not talking about the Pilgrims of 1620?

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.

[Critters2]

39. The Puritans and Pilgrims were different people. Brownists were not 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.

[Deep13]

42. I see. Thanks for explaining the distinction.

My peeps came from the 1620 group.

[montanto]

37. I just learned that too!!

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

[Fire Walk With Me]

46. Aren't you as well? What is your descended family name?

[BarenakedLady]

43. Me too.

[Westegg]

45. "Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis was asked...

...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!