Mayflower Families Through Five Generations
The well-known “silver books,” products of the Mayflower Society’s Five Generation Project, an attempt to identify the first five generations of Pilgrim descendants.
Alden: Vol. 16, Pt. 1, $49.95
Alden: Vol. 16, Pt. 2, $35
Alden: Vol. 16, Pt. 3, $35
Billington. See also Winslow
Bradford: Vol. 22, $49.95
Brown: Vol. 7, $25
Cooke: Vol. 12, $59.95
Doty: Vol. 11, Pt. 1, $25
Doty: Vol. 11, Pt. 2, $25
Doty: Vol. 11, Pt. 3, $25
Eaton: Vol. 9, $25
Fuller, Edward: Vol. 4, $25
Howland . Vol. 23, Pt. 1, $25
Howland Vol. 23, Pt. 2, $25
More. See Alden.
Priest: Vol. 8, $25
Samson: Vol. 20, Pt. 1, $25
Samson: Vol. 20, Pt. 2, $49.95
Samson: Vol. 20, Pt. 3, $49.95
Standish: Vol. 14, $25
Warren: Vol. 18, Pt. 1, $25
Warren: Vol. 18, Pt. 2, $25
Warren: Vol. 18, Pt. 3, $25
White: Vol. 13, $25
Winslow, Billington Vol. 5, $25
Susan E. Roser
Genealogical Publishing Co.; softcover, 1,073 pp. in 2 vols.,
$100
A compilation from the George Ernest Bowman files, the largest manuscript resource on Mayflower genealogy, with references to 50,000 Mayflower relations. Most lines are carried to the seventh and eighth generations, and some to the tenth. 1997
Susan E. Roser
Genealogical Publishing Co.; softcover, 660 pp.,
$60
Compilation of deeds and probate records extracted and transcribed from the George Ernest Bowman files. The deed and will abstracts provide a goldmine of genealogical information, some pertaining to non-Mayflower families whose lines originate in Plymouth, Bristol, or Middlesex Counties. 2009
Susan E. Roser
Genealogical Publishing Co.; softcover, 179 pp.,
$20
Summary of all that is known about the passengers of the Mayflower for the first three generations in America—names, dates, places, spouses, children, etc. 1995
John Howland of the Mayflower
Elizabeth Pearson White
6 x 9 hardcover, varying page counts
Vol. 1, $79.50
Vol. 2, $52.50
Vol. 3, $79.50
Vol. 4, $37.50
This prize-winning opus by Elizabeth White documents the first five generations of documented descendants through Mayflower passenger John Howland’s four children: Desire2 and her husband Capt. John Gorham (Vol. 1), John2 Howland and his wife, Mary Lee (Vol. 2), Hope2 Howland, wife of John Chipman (Vol. 3), and Elizabeth2 Howland, wife of Ephraim Hicks and Capt. John Dickinson (Vol. 4). 1990–2008
Land Transactions in Plymouth Colony, 1620–1691
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
NEHGS; 6 x 9 softcover, vii + 647 pp.
reg. $29.95, member price $26.96
This important genealogical work presents more than 400 transcriptions of early deeds of interest to Mayflower, Plymouth Colony, and Native American researchers. It includes a much-needed re-evaluation of land ownership and the relations between early-17thcentury European settlers and their Indian neighbors. A major addition to any early New England library. 2008