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Notes for DOROTHY MAY:
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The Mayflower Society says that Dorothy was the daughter of Henry Ma y of Wisbeech, co. Cambridge, England.
TAG 46:117 and NEHGR 50:462-5 bot h call her the daughter of John May, but it seems more likely she is daug
hter of Henry May. See "Plymouth Colony Its History and People 1620-1691 ," Eugene A. Stratton, Salt Lake
City, 1986, pp. 324-326 for a discussio n of this problem.
"English Homes of the Pilgrims", a Mayflower Society map, shows Doro thy May Bradford coming from
Wisbeach, east-central England, near the Nor th Sea. Wisbeach is south-east of Austerfield, where William
Bradford ca me from.
Dorothy drowned while the Mayflower lay at anchor shortly after thei r arrival at Cape Cod.[mjr6387.FTW]
CONFLICT: Ancestral file 4.15 states father is Henry, born abt 1570 of Wisbech,C,ENG
IMM:
More About DOROTHY MAY:
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Notes for ALICE CARPENTER:
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After the death of her first husband, Edward Southworth, Alice saile d to Plymouth on the Anne in 1623, and
shortly after arrival married Gov . William Bradford as his second wife. Her two sons by her first marriage ,
Constant and Thomas Southworth, came to Plymouth after her.
Captain Emmanuel Altham of the Little James reached Plymouth in th e summer of 1623, ten days after the
Anne. Together the two ships brough t some sixty persons to the colony. Altham describes the wedding feast c
elebrating Governor Bradford's marriage to Alice (Carpenter) Southworth , just arrived aboard the Anne. He
writes: "Upon the occasion of the Gov ernor's marriage [August 14, 1623], Massasoit was sent for to the wedding
, where came with him his wife, the queen, although he hath five wives . With him came four other kings and
about six score men with their bow s and arrows -- where, when they came to our town, we saluted them with t he
shooting off of many muskets. And so all the bows and arrows was brou ght into the Governor's house, and he
[Massasoit] brought the Governor th ree or four deer and a turkey. And so we had a very good pastime in seei ng
them dance, which is in such manner, with such noise that you would wo nder.... And now to say somewhat of the
great cheer we had at the Govenor 's marriage. We had about twelve pasty [meat pie] venisons, besides othe rs,
pieces of roasted venison and other such good cheer in such quantit y that I could wish you some of our share.
For here we have the best gra pes that ever you saw - and the biggest, and divers sorts of plums and nu ts."
The will of "Allis Bradford Sr. of Plymouth widow" was dated 29 Dece mber 1669 and exhibited 7 June 1670.
She asks to be "Intered as neare un to my Deceased husband, Mr. William Bradford as Conveniently may be" an
d makes bequests to her sister Mary Carpenter; son Constant Southworth; s on Joseph Bradford; son Capt.
William Bradford; honored friend Mr. Thoma s Prence; grandchild Elizabeth Howland, daughter of son Thomas
Southwort h deceased for the benefit of her son James Howland; servant maid Mary Sm ith. Alice Bradford left
an extensive estate, including books.[mjr6387.FTW]
IMM: Widow Alice, came in the "William and Mary," to Plymouth, MA., 1623. Husband Edward Sou thworth
of Leyden was b. 1590; d. ca. 1621. Edward's wife was a widow in July 1623. He m. L eyden, Holland, 28 May
1613, Alice Carpenter, b. ca. 1590; d. Plymouth, MA., 26 Mar 1670, ag e abt 80 years., dau. of Alexander
Carpenter of Wrington, Somersetshire. She came to Plymout h, 1623; m. (2) Plymouth, 14 Aug 1623, Gov.
William BRADFORD. The sons, Constant and Thomas , were brought up in the home of Gov. Bradford.[daverichardson.FTW]
DEATH: Age 79
More About ALICE CARPENTER:
Ancestral File Number: 840P-Q7
Burial: March 29, 1670, Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA 3636
Christening: August 03, 1590, Wrington, Somerset, England 3636
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