Description

The material covered in this thirty-four volume series includes essentially everything of interest to researchers studying the Mayflower passengers, the first few generations of their progeny, and others who settled in the many towns they established in southeastern Massachusetts. The volumes in this series contain extensive transcriptions of original records, as well as compiled genealogies, and related historical articles. Volume I contains: The Brewster Book; Governor Bradford's list of Mayflower passengers; old style versus new style dating; the Paul Prince Bible; Plymouth Colony deeds; Plymouth Colony probate records; Plymouth vital records; the diary of Jabez Fitch Jr.; division of cattle in 1627; division of land in 1623; the wills of: Gyles Hopkins, William Mullins, Peregrine White, Mary (Chilton) Winslow, and numerous others; the vital records of Middleborough and Scituate, Massachusetts; and much more. Indices to subjects, person and places enhance the text.