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Picnic in the Park This Summer

T his year we will gather at a site that we haven’t visited before: Fenimore Woods in Radnor. We will also be gathering on aSunday — August 8 — instead of a Saturday. It is an eleven-acre park located close by theEastern and Cabrini Colleges andthe Valley Forge Military Academy. It has a group picnic pavilion forlarge groups. Although we have had pretty good luck with rainlesspicnics over the years, it has ashelter building with a tablecapacity of 25-150 persons. Thereare rest rooms and ample parkingand it is billed as “not too sunny.”There is a three-acre lake for fishing but not swimming. Locally it isknown for its playground forchildren five and under and anotherone for older children. In 2009 itwas voted by Main Line Today as“Best Park for Kids.” There aregrills, volleyball and you can bringyour own horse shoes (sorry, nohorses, shod or otherwise). There isno charge. Just bring yourself,

children if you have any, guests,and your picnic lunch. We willprovide the soft drinks, lemonade,cups and ice cream. Please send in

the reservation so we know howmany to plan for. Bocci anyone?

A Glorious Day At

“The Maypole”

“A once upon a time feeling”; “Like Alice in Wonderland”;“What an afternoon this has been.” These were just a few of thecomments from those who attended SMDPA’s May 18 Spring Tea,held at The Maypole, an historic private home in Daylesford, aPhiladelphia suburb.

It was easy tounderstand thesecomments. Without adoubt, the house was ahistory buff’s dream.Literary giants W.H.Auden and Thomas Mannwere guests. While sippingcold beverages and feasting on hors d’oeuvres weinspected historicPennsylvania documents on display just for us.

Our host, Dr. JohnPierpont Rosso, greeted uson arrival. Jacqueline L. (Jacqui)

Host Dr. John Pierpont Rosso (left) andGov. Nor man P. Rob in son en joy a chat to gether in Dr. Rosso’s his toric home.

Editors: Stacy B.C. Wood, Jr. Phone: (215) 463-2422

Fred Clement www.SAIL1620.org

Vol ume XXII, No. 2 Summer, 2010

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Hunt assisted Dr. Rosso asco-host. Dr. Rosso explained that our Tea was a memorial to hislate colleague and friend,Jacqui’s brother, Dr. John M.Hunt, who served as SMDPAnewsletter editor, board memberand recipient of the 2003 MostDistinguished Pilgrim award.

As he greeted us, Dr. Rossoinvited all to explore freely every room in his house, literally fromtop to bottom. All four floorlevels. To be sure, we acceptedhis generous invitation. Whowould not envy the wealth ofhistory that filled each and every room.

Did we not sense the urge tosip a cup of tea with NovelistThomas Mann, poet W. H.Auden, at the invite of thehome’s former owner, CarolineNewton, who like her father A.Edward, the noted bibliophile,attracted famous people?

On the second floor, therewere “bookrooms” (not to beconfused with “libraries”). Dr.Rosso explained that MissNewton’s father had a real“library” in his house, OakKnoll, that once stood across thestreet (and now is the name ofthe condominiums there now).

The history of the house goesback to 1724 as “Half WayHouse,” later “The Blue BallTavern.” At present “TheMaypole” is the name inspiredby former owner CarolineNewton based on the novelBarnaby Rudge, written byDickens.

Photographs on the wall of the oldest portion of the house show

W.H. Auden, Thomas Mann andothers of historic prominence.

The following is a briefdescription of different areas ofthe home as written by the lateDr. John M. Hunt:

Above the living room on thefourth story is the “sky parlor,” a small but spectacular room donein paneling taken from MissNewton’s father’s kitchen at“Oak Knoll.” The four alcoves in the living room, created byThomas Pym Cope for thedisplay of her mother’sStaffordshire collection, nowshowcase other mementos; thebalcony adjoining the sky parloraffords a splendid view of thegrounds. On the other side of thehouse, by the main entrance is afine brick terrace where severalguests sat to socialize.

From the very moment oneentered this incredible historicalhome, a transformation intotimes of yore was evident.

While sipping on tea andfeasting on hors d’oeuvres,cakes, pies, cookies, and MimiConnelly’s sushi, our SMDPAGovernor Norman Robinsonasked Dr. Rosso if, toward theend of our social time togetherwould he give us a history lesson on this historic house andsurrounding area. Well worthnoting, he pointed out on various tables throughout his home were11 early PA documents of deedsand local land grants. Somehandwritten and some with seals, from Cumberland and DauphinPA Counties. Signatures include William Penn’s grandson andother prominent Pennsylvanians.

As Dr. Rosso completed histalk, he reminded us we wereinvited to this spring tea party asa memorial to the late Dr. JohnM. Hunt and that he would liketo have us return for another teaat “The Maypole” another time.

The following SMDPAmembers, prospective membersand guests attended:

Members: James Bucknerand wife Debbie Buckner, MimiConnelly, Valerie Cullen andhusband Bert Cullen, LaytonFireng, Mrs. BarbaraGorham-Engard and husbandFrank Gorham-Engard, Mr.Norman J. Greene, III and wifeMrs. Norman Greene, III, Mrs.Anne Hain, Mrs. PaulineHornberger and son JamesHornberger, Ms. Jacqueline L.Hunt, Mrs. Dorothy Lees, Ms.Lois Masterson, Mrs. DebbieMarkowitz, Ms. Joanne Michael, Mrs. Joan Reed Miller andhusband Donald L. Miller, Ms.Debra G. Miller, SMDPAGovernor Norman P. Robinson, Ms. Robin Rush, Walton VanWinkle, Mrs. Debbie Yingst andhusband John Yingst, Mrs.Miriam Zieber.

Our SMDPA photographer,Mrs. Joan Sanford (non-member)

Prospective SMDPAmembers: Ms. Wendy Davis,Mr. Dan Lute and wife Ella, Ms.Mary Parnell, Ms. Linda Conlan, Mrs. Dorothy Scherer

Special note: AndrewSchweizer and Peter Guimettistudents of Dr. Rosso whoassisted with serving tea.

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Spring Tea be Main Line


Spring Tea: A relaxingafternoon of

history

Summer 2010 5

Governor's MessageSince my last communication

your SMDPA Board of Assistants

has held meetings in April and

June. The regular February

organizational meeting was first

postponed then canceled due to

the severe snow storms that made

travel practically impossible in

Eastern Pennsylvania. At the

April meeting we welcomed the

returning and new officers along

with three new Assistants elected

to the Board at the January

Annual Meeting. The new

Assistants are Joan C. Miller,

Assistant General for

Pennsylvania and Immediate Past

Governor of the Susquehanna

Colony; Dorothy Y. Lees from

Wellsville, PA; and Kathleen

Myers of Falls Creek, PA. Their

terms will expire January 2013.

Committee chairpersons were

approved and assigned: They are

as follows: Audit: Peter Adams;

Archivist: Mark F. Lloyd;

Community Relations: Winchell

Carroll; Education: Co-Chairs

James R. Buckner & Joan C.

Miller; Executive Committee:

Norman P. Robinson; Finance:

Robert J. Heinsohn; By-Laws:

Thomas R. Kellogg, Junior

Membership: Hunter Davis, Jr.;

Membership: Sandy Boyd;

Newsletter Editors: Stacy B.C.

Wood, Jr. & Frederick T.J.

Clement, Jr.; Nominating: Debra

G. Miller; Social Events:

Co-Chairs Deborah T. Markowitz

& Dorothy Y. Lees;

Thanksgiving Elder: Rev. Judith

A Meier; Website: Stacy B.C.

Wood, Jr.; Webmaster: Joseph

H. Wood. Should any members of

the Society be interested in

serving on a committee please

contact the appropriate chairman.

All are welcome. Page 11 itemizes

the chairpersons’ list.

Anne Hain, former BOA

member, has requested to get back

into SMDPA activity, and having

heard of the opening for the

Registrar position has volunteered

her services for the job. The

Executive Committee has offered

Anne the opportunity to take on

the task on a trial basis, and

Co-Editor Fred will assist and

oversea Anne’s carrying out the

duties and work of the Registrar.

Retiring Registrar, Stephen

Connelly, will be training both

Anne and Fred in the practical

handling of the data base

applications of the membership

records. (Article, page 11)

The SMDPA Spring Tea held

at John Pierpont Rosso’s historic

home, “The Maypole,” was a

delightful and interesting event.

The weather was perfect, the food

provided by each guest was

delicious and plentiful, and a nice

crowd decided at the last minute

that it would be too nice of a

party to miss, so they showed

up. Mr. Rosso entertained the

group for about twenty minutes

with some very interesting

history of “The Maypole” from

1720 on. Many thanks to Mr.

Rosso for opening up and sharing

his home, and thanks to Social

Chair Deb Markowitz for making

all the arrangements.

The last bit of good news is that

the Education committee Chair,

Joan Miller, along with the new

Board Assistant, Kathy Myers,

have installed the “Five

Generations Project Publications”

series of books in the Mengle

Memorial Library in Brockway,

Pennsylvania. The Governor

received, on behalf of SMDPA, a

very appreciative thank-you letter

from the Library. They wrote

“that having the books now will

benefit people researching their

family tree who would otherwise

have to travel to Erie or Pittsburgh

to get the information needed to

learn about their ancestors.” This

is an example of the reason why

we need to give extra financial

support to the Education

Committee with the fine job they

are doing in getting the Mayflower

story known to the citizens of

Pennsylvania (article, page 7).

I look forward to seeing more

of you at the SMDPA summer

picnic August 8 at Fenimore

Woods Park. See details at the end

of this issue of the Newletter, and

be sure to put it on your calendar.

Have a good summer,

Norm Robinson, Governor

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Robert L. McNeil, Jr.Robert L. McNeil Jr., a pharmaceutical

executive who introduced Tylenol in 1955 as a competitor to aspirin for pain relief, died ofheart failure on May 20 at his home inWyndmoor, PA. He was 94.

Mr. McNeil was the third generation of his family towork at the company thatbecame NcNeilLaboratories, which wasfounded in 1879 by hisgrandfather as a pharmacyin Philadelphia.

Descended from WilliamBrewster, Mr. McNeil was a life member of SMDPAsince 1995, #2229. He wasa financial supporter ofsome of this Society'soutreach projects. Recentlyhe helped fund a bronzeplaque describing the history of the Leiden,Holland, Walloon Vrouwekerk.

Mr. McNeil guided his family’s drugbusiness into a modern pharmaceuticalcompany. During his tenure the firmintroduced the first Tylenol product, ElixirTylenol, as a liquid children’s medicine toreduce pain and fever. Tylenol went on themarket as a prescription medication in 1955and became available over-the-counter in

1960. In 1956 Mr. McNeil becamecompany chairman. In 1959 Johnson &Johnson bought the firm. Mr. McNeil wasthe chairman of Johnson & Johnson’s

McNeil subsidiary until 1964.He gave Tylenol its genericname, “acetaminophen.”

Born in Bethel, CT, hegrew up in Philadelphia'sGermantown section. Hegraduated from YaleUniversity in 1936 with adegree in physiologicalchemistry and bacteriologyand completed a secondbachelor’s degree at thePhiladelphia College ofPharmacy and Science, nowcalled the University of theSciences in Philadelphia.

McNeil married NancyMcKinney Jones in 1956, the year hebecame chairman of McNeil. She survives him, as do two sons, two daughters and11 grandchildren, all of the Philadelphiaarea.

Thanks to The New York Times online for information and the photo in this obituarynotice.

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Travelling This Summer?

If you are interested in seeing if there are any Pilgrim memorials where you are travelling,have a look at the Pilgrim Memorials Around the World page on our website athttp://www.sail1620.org/history/pilgrim-memorials-around-the-world.html . If you are going tobe in Plymouth, MA, you might also be interested in picking up a copy of James Baker’s AGuide to Historic Plymouth. This pocket size book contains “Images and nutshell histories of the most important sites” and is not limited to Pilgrim-related sites. It is available in advance of your departure from www.PilgrimHall.org.

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SMDPA Donates To Mengle

Memorial Library

At its Aprilmeeting the Boardof Assistants of SMDPA votedunanimously todonate the series of books known as the “Five GenerationsProjectPublications” to the Mengle MemorialLibrary, Brockway. This series ofbooks tracesdescendants of thePilgrims downthrough the fifthgeneration to thebirth of the sixthgenerationchildren. Thevolumes have beencarefully researched andcontain the bestdocumented genealogicaldata that is available.

One of 18 libraries in the state to have received these volumes from the SMDPA, Mengle Memorial Libraryis the only library in itsregion of Pennsylvania tohave such a collection.With this donation,residents of Jefferson, Elk,Clearfield, Clarion andCameron countiesinterested in early

genealogies will no longerhave to leave the area toaccess this information.

The Five GenerationsProject has been a 50-yeareffort of the GeneralSociety of MayflowerDescendants and ison-going into the 6th

generations and beyond. Updates and additionalvolumes will be providedto the library as theybecome available.

According to DarleneMarshall, Librarian atMengle Memorial,

previouslyplannedrenovations tothe library willsoon beunderway. Whencompleted, thelibrary willhave an elevator and additionalnew space thatwill house agenealogyroom. It isexpected therenovations will be completedby the first ofthe year. Thevolumes are a

welcome addition to thegenealogy room.

To encourage lineageresearch, SMDPA willoffer seminars on the useof the books at the library,which is located at 324Main Street, Brockway,PA 15824.

A complete list of the 18 libraries appears on ourwebsite athttp://www.sail1620.org/proving-your-lineage.html

(Photo by John Myers)

On be half of our So ci ety, Board of As sis tants mem ber Kathy Myers (left) for mally pres ents “Five Gen er a tions Pro ject Pub li ca tions” to Mengle Me mo rial Li brary Li -brar ian Darlene Mar shall. Un for tu nately Board mem -ber Joan Miller was not able to at tend thepre sen ta tion.

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'Mayflower' Passengers From

Whom Descent May Be Claimed

By Stacy B.C. Wood, Jr.

On January 1, 2010 theGeneral Society authorizedapplications for membershipand/or supplementalapplications to be filed forALL passengers on the 1620Mayflower from whom descent is known. This is in keepingwith Article III, Section 1, ofthe General Society’sConstitution where previouslythe word “all” had beeninterpreted to be only thetwenty-six male family heads.In 2005 the three wives withknown maiden names wereadded. The current list is given here alphabetically by familyand includes maiden names ofwives in parentheses and anyprevious husbands followed by children passengers:

John Alden [see WilliamMullins for wife Priscilla];Isaac Allerton, Mrs. Mary(Norris) Allerton,Bartholomew Allerton,Remember Allerton, MaryAllerton; John Billington,Mrs. Elinor (unknown)Billington, Francis Billington;William Bradford; WilliamBrewster, Mrs. Mary(unknown) Brewster, LoveBrewster; Peter Brown; James Chilton, Mrs. James(unknown) Chilton, MaryChilton; Francis Cooke, JohnCooke; Edward Doty; FrancisEaton, Mrs. Sarah (unknown)Eaton, Samuel Eaton; Moses

Fletcher; Edward Fuller,Mrs. Edward (unknown)Fuller, Samuel Fuller; SamuelFuller; Stephen Hopkins,Mrs. Elizabeth (Fisher)Hopkins, Constance Hopkins,Giles Hopkins; John Howland[see John Tilley for wifeElizabeth]; Richard More;William Mullins, Mrs. Alice(unknown) Mullins, PriscillaMullins; Degory Priest;Thomas Rogers, JosephRogers; Henry Samson;George Soule; MylesStandish; John Tilley, Mrs.Joan (Hurst) Tilley who wasthe widow of non-PilgrimThomas Rogers, ElizabethTilley; Richard Warren;William White, Mrs. Susanna(unknown) White, PeregrineWhite, Resolved White; EdwardWinslow, Mrs.Susanna(unknown)Winslow, thewidow ofWilliam Whiteabove.

NB. 1.Children listedare notnecessarilychildren of thewife listed (e.g.Hopkinschildren) andmay be by anearlier wife.Children by apreviously

married wife passenger areeligible (e.g. Joan Hurst whoapparently had at least oneunnamed child by ThomasRogers about whom no furtherinformation is available).

2. Children, if any, of Elinor Billington’s second marriageto Gregory Armstrong areunknown.

3. The only child born toWilliam Bradford and his firstwife, passenger Dorothy May,did not have a continuing line.

For further information seethe appropriate GeneralSociety’s Mayflower FamiliesThrough Five Generationsvolume available atwww.themayflowersociety.com/book.htm

The Pilgrim Roll CallNow that members both current and

prospective may file lineage papersclaiming descent from all passengerson the 1620 Mayflower (see article thispage) the following question arises: Isthere an “official” opinion on who is tobe included in the Pilgrim Roll Call atthe various SMD meetings, i.e. all ofthe 52 passengers with knowndescendants, just the 26 male headsand their wives, or only the 26 maleheads? Your editor put this to ourGovernor General and the answer is:“Whatever the governor wishes. Somehave always read them all.”

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Please Don't Forget !!

All members (including Junior Members)should have received the dues notice for thisyear. Those who are Life or Emeritus /-amembers are not expected to pay annual dues,however we do offer the opportunity tocontribute to one or more of our importanteducation programs. If you are an annualmember, it would be appreciated if you wouldplease forward the dues and save your Boardmembers the time and expense of having toremind you by phone.

— Thanks

Welcome New Members

We congratulate our newest members who are listed by name, ancestor,

ancestor-generation and membership category. A Regular member is an annual member.

Walter Hagar Priscilla Mullins 11 Supplemental

Ann Redfield (Beatty) Devlin Tillinghast John Alden 10 Regular

Carollynne (Ripley) Puntes Kelly John Alden 11 Regular

John Crafts Thompson John Cooke 10 Regular

Daniel George Lute Richard Warren 11 Regular

Note that Walter Hagar has honored his ancestor Priscilla Mullins by proving his line fromher. During the first winter Priscilla, then aged 16 or 17, was most likely one of the “six orseven sound persons” commended by Governor Bradford in his history, who nursed the sick, “a rare example and worthy to be remembered.” The complete list of wives and children whocame on the Mayflower appears elsewhere in this newsletter. We welcome supplementals foreach of them. Who will be the first to file for the boys Peregrine White (born on the Mayflower) or Resolved White or their mother Susanna (maiden name currently unknown) who was thewife of both William White and Edward Winslow?

Editorial AssistantNeeded

Your co-editors are looking for a

member who would like to work on

our award-winning newsletter with

us. If you are a good writer; if you

enjoy covering Pilgrim- and

Mayflower-related topics; if you

work well with computers as well as

humans; and if you can meet

deadlines, we invite you to give it a

try. Please contact Editor Stacy

B.C. Wood, Jr., at

[email protected] .


Plimoth Plantation

Bradford-Carpenter Wedding ReenactmentThe following announcement was

forwarded by Ellie Donovan, ExecutiveDirector of the 1627 Plimoth Plantation:

Join us for the wedding of thecentury! (The 17th century that is.)On Saturday August 14th PlimothPlantation will step back in time tothe year 1623 when the Colony’sGovernor married Alice Southworth -recently arrived from England on theship Anne. Plimoth’s renowned native and colonial interpreters will bringthis historic event to life as Massasoit, Sachem of the Wampanoag, journeysto Plimoth to be a guest at thiswonderful event. Checkwww.plimoth.org for moreinformation about the upcomingwedding and surrounding events.

ElectronicEditionOf The

Pennsylvania 'Mayflower'

If you would like to receive ourquarterly newsletter, The PennsylvaniaMayflower, in “living color” by e-mailinstead of by USPS, and haven’t done soalready, please send us an e-mail requestto “[email protected] “PA Mayflower” on the subject line. By doing so you will save us printing and postage fees that can then be directed toour educational programs. Remember,however, that you must keep us informedif you change your e-mail address.

What Do You Know About YOUROWN Ancestor’s Wedding???

Do you know where and how yourPilgrim ancestors married? Do youknow the basic tenets of their faith?What did their church building looklike both inside and out? You mightbe surprised. What is the latestSudoku 9-letter keyword? Foranswers please visit the attached“Junior Pennsylvania Mayflower”quarterly that is now in its 10th year of publication. It is a newsletter for boththe young and the young at heart.

The honour of your presenceis requested

atthe wedding of

Governor William Bradfordto

Alice Carpenter Southworth

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Summer 2010 11

New Registrar

Appointed

With the resignation ofStephen J. Connelly asSMDPA Registrar due toother important jobsbeckoning, Anne V. Hain hasbeen reappointed to theposition she held earlier thispast decade. We thank Stevefor his work during the pastyear and will miss his “cando” spirit. He was able tosolve some major problemsthat existed in our memberdatabase.

Anne Vickers Greene Hain, who has been a member since1974, served as Registrar2002-2005 and she too had topreviously retire due topressing duties at home. Wewelcome her back. Anne in2001 served as the first Junior Membership Committee chairand has continued to helpeach year with costuming thechildren for our annualThanksgiving MemorialChurch Service. Anne ismarried to David L. Hain, Jr.,and has three children whoare Life Members:Maximillian Brueckman,Alexandra, and Victoria. Sheand David hosted our 2002Spring at their Radnor home.She is a granddaughter of thelate and former SMDPAGovernor Norman Joy Greene (1961-1962) who also waselected Governor General ofthe Mayflower Society andserved from 1966-1969.Welcome back Anne!

Coming EventSunday, November 21, 2010

Annual Thanksgiving Memorial Service

St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Douglassville

Dinner site TBA

Committee Chairpersons (And Other Appointees) - 2010

Audit Committee (ad hoc) Peter M. Adams

Archivist: Mark Frazier Lloyd

Community Relations Committee Winchell S. Carroll

Education Committee James R. Buckner Joan C. Miller

Executive Committee Norman P. Robinson

Finance Committee Robert J. Heinsohn

Bylaws Committee (ad hoc) Thomas R Kellogg, Esq

Junior Membership Committee Hunter B. Davis, Jr.

Membership Committee Sandra Boyd

Newsletter Frederick T.J. Clement, Jr.Stacy B.C. Wood, Jr.

Nominating Committee Debra G. Miller

“Pilgrims Then & Now” Sales Alice E. Boucher

Social Events Committee Dorothy Y. LeesDeborah T. Markowitz

Thanksgiving Committee (ad hoc) The Rev. Judith A. Meier

Website Committee Stacy B.C. Wood, Jr.

Webmaster Joseph H. Wood


Western Colony ReportOn Saturday, May 15, 2010, thirty-four

members of the Western Colony andguests enjoyed the lovely setting of theUpper St. Clair Country Club in UpperSt. Clair, Pennsylvania, on the occasionof their spring luncheon meeting. Thearrival of perfect spring weatherfollowing a week of cool temperaturesand rain was also enjoyed by all.

The Colony welcomed new membersDr. Deborah Smith and Reed Keale. Among prospective members present was the luncheon speaker, Mr. ClaytonKilgore, Curator and Educator at theWashington County Historical Societyand Director of the David BradfordHouse in Washington, Pennsylvania. Mr.Kilgore appeared in 18th-century periodcostume and brought along numerousappropriate worker and tradesman tools toaccompany his presentation on Early Pioneer Settlers in southwestern Pennsylvania. His

lively and interesting talk was wellreceived by the audience.

Looking forward to the summer, ourannual Summer Picnic will be held onSaturday, July 17, 2010 at the home of ourPast Colony Governor and currentHistorian, Patricia Hill, in Cabot, PA. Prior to enjoying the food provided by membersand guests at 12:00 o’clock noon, aworkshop will be held from 10:00 to 11:30a.m. to assist prospective members withtheir lineage papers and the applicationprocess to help each to become newSociety members. Members will bringfoods of choice and of course, the tablesare always filled.

The fall meeting in November will be the third Saturday as in the past. The date willbe November 20, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. forsocial hour and cash bar followed by themeeting and luncheon. Place: to beannounced.

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The Breese fam ily: Speaker Clay ton Kilgore is a Breesefam ily mem ber and a pro spec tive mem ber of SMDPA.

Speaker Clay ton Kilgore (sec ond from left) takes timeto dis cuss his pe riod cos tume with Re cord ing Sec re tary Gwen Glasberger, Col ony Gov er nor Mar ga ret M. Leo(sec ond from right), and out go ing Sec re tary Mrs. LindaLintine.

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SMDPA Officer Receives Award

We congratulate our SMDPA Treasurerand Deputy Governor General nomineeDeborah A. Yingst, who at the Springmeeting of the New Jersey MayflowerSociety on May 15th, received an award. The certificate reads as follows (“Hook” refers to Cape Cod):

The Editors of the Mayflower Quarterly of the General Society of MayflowerDescendants are pleased to present TheOrder of the Hook to the Illustrious Deborah A. Yingst, Life Member of the Society ofMayflower Descendants in the State of NewJersey

Who exemplifies the spirit of theMayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod

Who found safety and security in theharbors, Sustenance from its land and waters

Friendship with its native people

Prosperity from its resources

Shelter for their families and Freedom toworship their God without interference orretribution

The details of which and more areexpressed within the pages of the Mayflower Quarterly

That is being celebrated during thisDiamond Jubilee year

Given on the Fifteenth day of May TwoThousand and Ten

Signed by Alice C. Teal, Editor and Harry P. Folger 3rd, Assistant Editor”

Report

TheSusquehanna

Colony

In April we went up to Lewisburgto meet with our members in thatarea and as usual had a great time. Dot Sayers is now in charge of thearrangements and Richard Mix isnow helping her.

Joan Miller gave her report on theeducation committee after AssistantGov. Jim Buckner said grace. Therewas a potential new member whomRichard Mix is mentoring and he wasdelightful. He is also very involved inDAR. The next Lewisburg meeting isSeptember 25, 2010 at the CountryKitchen at 11 am.

Our regular Spring meeting wasMay 8 at the Calvary UnitedMethodist Church in Harrisburg. We were small in numbers but had awonderful time. David Hunt gave afantastic talk on the MayflowerStamp. The handouts were excellent. The church ladies provided theirusual delicious meal. Since it wasMother’s Day weekend many of ourstalwarts weren’t there. We aretalking about having a picnic thissummer but no firm plans yet. Ournext meeting is October 23rd at theAllenberry Playhouse in BoilingSprings starting at 11:30 am.

Alice Boucher

Governor


This was a favorite recipe of mymother’s for summer meals on thepatio. It is not haut cuisine, probablymore what you would call “CongregationalChurch Supper” food. This type ofcooking is sometimes disdained, but in asense it isfolk art, and recipes like this havesurvived because people like them.

How to Cook

Pour 1 cup hot water over 1 pkglime-flavored gelatin

Stir until disolved - chill - until consist-ency of unbeated egg white.

Add 1 #2 can crushed pineapple

1 cup cottage cheese

1/2 cup celery, finely diced

1 T pimento

1/2 cup walnuts, chopped

Pour into 8x8x2 cake pan. Chill until firm.

Combine 1 3 oz pkg cream cheese, 1 Tmayonnaise, 1 t lemon juice

Frost top of salad

Cut into squares - arrange on greens - garnishwith walnut halves

Serves 6.

Variations: My mother would often leave offthe frosting. This reduces calories and makesa lighter dish. You may then garnish the salad with halved maraschino cherries and walnuts.I would leave out the pimento if usingcherries.

I leave out the celery, because I don’t like it.

The Chef

Connoisseurextraordinaire DavidH. Hunt of theSusquehanna Colony,is a frequentcontributor to this page.

The Cook's Corner

Walnut Trivia

In ancient Persia, only royalty was allowed

to eat walnuts. n Mesopotamia (nowmodern Iraq), boasted of walnut groves inthe famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon

about 2,000 BC. n Whole, unshelledwalnuts were found on the table at theTemple of Isis when Mt. Vesuvius eruptedAugust 24, 79 AD.

Some pets may en joy help ing youpre pare this sum mer time fa vor ite.

Frosted Lime-Walnut Salad

JUNIOR PA MAYFLOWERSociety of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

WWW.SAIL1620.ORG SUMMER 2010 VOL. 10 NO. 2

GOVERNOR BRAD-FORD MARRIES!

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EXTRA!PLIMOTH COLONY - GOVERNOR BRADFORD TOOK FOR HIS SECOND WIFE

ELIZABETH, THE WIDOW SOUTHWORTH. “GREAT CHEER” FOLLOWED.

MARRIAGE PILGRIM STYLE & THEPILGRIM CHURCHAs announced in the main section of thisnewsletter, the 1627 Plimoth Plantation

has issued an invitation to the public to attend a re-creation of a Pilgrim wedding ceremony this year on the14th of August. They have chosen to go back to the year1623 when Governor William Bradford, whose wifeDorothy May had drowned shortly after the arrival of theMayflower in 1620, married Elizabeth Carpenter, thewidow Southworth. She had arrived on the ship Anne ear-lier that year. There were earlier marriages than theirs.The first marriage in the new Colony took place on 12May 1621 when widower Edward Winslow and Susanna,the widow of Pilgrim William White, were united. Theoriginal partners of both had died during the first fewmonths after arrival. John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley,both youths on the Mayflower, were married before April1623. John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, also bothMayflower passengers, were married probably in 1623.Captain Myles Standish, whose wife had died the firstwinter, remarried in the Colony by 1624. Dr. Jeremy D. Bangs states in his book Strangers andPilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners, that the Bradford andCarpenter wedding is the only marriage in the PlymouthColony for which there is a written report. It was recordedin a September 1623 letter from an Emmanuel Altham. Itsays that the wedding dinner included “about twelve pastyvenisons [deer], besides others, pieces of roasted venisonand other such good cheer in such quantity that I couldwish you some of our share, For here we have the bestgrapes that ever you say [sic, for “saw”] – and the biggest,and divers sorts of plums and nuts.”You might have ex-pected that the Pilgrim’s Elder William Brewster wouldhave conducted the ceremony. But it is probable that IsaacAllerton, who was the Governor’s only Assistant for manyof the early Colony years, officiated. Why not ElderBrewster? It was a matter of faith. The Pilgrim Churchwas governed by Pastors, Elders and Deacons, not byArchbishops, Bishops, etc. John Robinson, the Pilgrims’

pastor in Leiden, who unfortunately died before he couldcome to the Colony, held that marriage was not a churchservice. Gov. Bradford in his history, Of Plymouth Plantation,in writing about the first marriage (Edward Winslow)states that it took place according to the custom since1590 of the Low Countries (The Netherlands) where thePilgrims had spent a dozen years after fleeing England.Their magistrates performed the wedding ceremony be-cause marriage was not a religious matter, but instead acivil matter. The Pilgrims, who were Christian Separatists,believed that the New Testament contains only two sacra-ments that are unique to Christianity: baptism (withoutmaking the sign of the cross) and communion. Althoughthis was a period of great church music, the only musictolerated by the Pilgrims in their church service was thesinging of psalms. Burial of the dead is another matter thatthey held to be strictly a civil matter for it has been carriedon by believers and non-believers alike. They would,however, be buried in a churchyard. Dr. Bangs in his booklists those Pilgrims buried in Leiden churchyards and in-cluded are children of their pastor John Robinson and El-der William Brewster. Inheritance, a civil matter, wasbased on marriage and any children born of the union. InLeiden a couple would register their betrothal (intent tomarry or engagement) three weeks before a wedding. The

ceremony,with wit-nesses cho-sen by thecouple, tookplace beforetwo magis-trates in thetown hall.. It mightbe followedby a wed-ding ban-

quet with family and friends just as we often do today. In1635, Pilgrim Edward Winslow (often referred to as NewEngland’s first diplomat) while on the Colony’s businessin London, was imprisoned for approximately seventeenweeks by the Archbishop of Canterbury for admitting topublicly teaching in church and conducting marriages

Leiden Town HallImage courtesy of Dr. Jeremy D. Bangs

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ANSWER TO THE GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORDCRYPTOGRAM: “The first marriage in this place whichaccording to the laudable custom of the Low Countries inwhich they lived, was thought most requisite to be performedby the magistrate as being a civil thing ...” Of PlymouthPlantation, Page 62

“The moone suffered a great eclips the 2.night after it.” Governor Bradford writes inhis History of Plymouth Plantation that in1635, on either the 14th or 15th of August,“was such a mighty storm of wind and rain

as none living in these parts, either English or Indians, eversaw.” Two nights later there was an eclipse of the moon(although apparently not total). Have you ever seen a totallunar (moon) eclipse? The next will be on 21 Dec 2010 andvisible throughout the United States. Mark your calendar!

contrary to the laws of the Church ofEngland which forbid such actions

by the un-ordained. However, among those who also fled to Holland for reli-gious freedom were the Walloons or Huguenots. Amongthem were Francis and Hester Mahieu Cooke. They weremarried in the Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady) that hadbeen assigned by the Leiden city fathers to use by the Wal-loons and it became known as the “French Church.” The

Cookes were among the1620 Mayflower passen-gers. Philip Delano, whojoined the PlymouthColony after arriving onthe 1621 Fortune, hadbeen baptized in theVrouwekerk. Dr. Bangs,a former curator atPlimoth Plantation andnow the director of theLeiden American PilgrimMuseum, has been a ma-jor leader in saving the

last ruins of the Vrouwekerk from removal and the city fa-thers will be dedicating a plaque designed by Dr. Bangs withtext in both Dutch and English later this year. Our Societycontributed to the purchase of the plaque.

The Vrouwekerk, the WalloonChurch in Leiden.

Image courtesy of Dr. Jeremy D. Bangs

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The Pilgrim Church In the previous section about Pilgrim marriages the Wal-loon Vrouwekerk church was mentioned but the churchwhere the Pilgrims worshiped in Leiden was not becausethere was no former Catholic church building assigned tothem by the Leiden city fathers. On page 4, the coloringpage, is a drawing of the replica of the Fort-Meeting Housewhere they worshiped in the early years of Plymouth Colony.The current stone 1899 First Parish Church of Plymouthstands on the site of the Pilgrims’ Fort-Meeting House. Dur-ing the past four centuries five houses of worship have stoodat the top of First Street (now Leyden St.) at the foot ofBurial Hill. The street is “the oldest continuously occupiedstreet in British North America.” Those previous to the cur-rent stone edifice, being wooden. all burned to the ground.See the First Parish website for illustrations at http:// restore- firstparishplymouth.org/History.aspx. The church has Tiffanystained glass windows depicting Pilgrim scenes. Its bell wasmade by Paul Revere. It is a beauty to behold. It is the oldestcongregation in North America, though it is now Unitarian.Would the Pilgrims wish to worship there today? Where didthey worship during their 11 year stay in Leiden? First it is

important to know that “church” to thePilgrims meant a group of worshipers,not a building. The former Catholicchurches, stripped of their imagery,that the Leiden fathers assigned to thevarious faiths that settled there in pur-suit of their idea of religious freedom,were not acceptable to the Pilgrims:they wanted no part of the buildingsthat had once housed Catholics. Theyrenounced steeples, stained glass win-dows, crucifixes, organs (they sangPsalms unaccompanied), etc. Thusthey most likely would not be pleasedby what has become a lovely memorial to them. Dr. Bangshas thoroughly searched the records of Leiden and not founddocumentation for the buildings Pilgrims used for worship.In his Strangers and Pilgrims he surmises “that during theirearly years in Leiden (from 1609) Sunday services, prayermeetings and other gatherings were most likely held in ‘TheGreen Close’ house that they bought on Pieterskerkhof, thesquare where St. Peter’s Church stands. He further states“that there are indications towards the end of 1618 that thePilgrims were using a room in the [Leiden] university library(which was a converted chapel).” In 1619 a law was passedforbidding gathering in private homes to discuss religion.” Itwas time to move on!

The First ParishChurch of Plymouth.

Dr. Bangs’ book Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners is available at www.themayflowersociety.com/book.htm.

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ANSWER: Unused letters from the 16 x 20 PILGRIM MAR-RIAGE & CHURCH WordSearch spell: A STEEPLE,STAINGLASS WINDOW, CRUCIFIX, OR AN ORGAN.

PILGRIM MARRIAGE & CHRCH 16 X 20 WORD-SEARCH The following 41 words are found in this issue.Some may be 17th century spelling. The unused letters an-swer the question “What did the Pilgirms renounce?”ALLERTON, ALTHAM, ARCHBISHOPS, ASSISTANT,BANQUET, BAPTISM, BETROTHAL, BRADFORD,BREWSTER, CARPENTER, CATHOLIC, CEREMONY,CHURCHYARD, COLONY, COMMUNION, DEACONS,DIPLOMAT, DOCUMENTATION, ECLIPSE, ELDER,EMMANUEL, MAGISTRATES, MARRIAGE,MAYFLOWER, MOON, MULLINS, OFFICIATED, PAS-TORS, PILGRIMS, PLUMS, PSALMS, REPORT, ROBIN-SON, SEPARATISTS, SOJOURNERS, SOUTHWORTH,STRANGERS, TESTAMENT, TRAVELLERS, VENISONS,WHITE.

WHICH ITEMS ARE ASSOCIATED IN THE TWOCOLUMNS? DRAW CONNECTING LINES.

ANSWERS: A = j, B = e , C = h, D = g, E = c, F = l, G = b,H = f, I = m, J = i, K = k, L = d, M = a

PILGRIM MARRIAGE & CHURCH 16 X 20 WordSearch

CHURCH SUDOKU CLUES: One column or row spells the keywordin the clear. Write it here: __________________________

A. Isaac AllertonB. William BradfordC. Elizabeth CarpenterD Dorothy MayE. Edward WinslowF. CivilG. Betrothal bansH. 1621I. VrouwekerkJ. ReligiousK. 1623L. Not recognized byPilgrim faith.M. Two

a. Number of Pilgrim sacramentsb. Registering of intent to marryc. New England’s 1st diplomat whospent 17 months in prison in Londond. Archbishops, and bishops.e. 2nd Plymouth Colony Governorf. Year of 1st Plymouth Colony wed-ding.g. William Bradford’s 1st wife.h. William Bradford’s 2nd wife.i. Huguenot wedding.j. 1st Assistant Governork. Year of Bradford’s 2nd wedding.l. Pilgrim weddingm. Leiden Huguenot church.

A GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORD CRYPTOGRAMSBN GCQRS KWQQCWAN CL SBCR OJWDN VBCDB WD-DMQICLA SM SBN JWTI WEJN DTRSMK MG SBN JMVDMTLSQCNR CL VBCDB SBNY JCUNI VWR SBMTABSKMRS QNPTCRCSN SM EN ONQGMQKNI EY SBNKWACRSQWSN WR ENCLA W DCUCJ SBCLA … Anno1621NB Word length has been maintained and spelling is modern.

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Pilgrim images courtesy Plimoth Plantation.Not your Pilgrim ancestor’s church!!

The Church Sudoku puz-zle uses eight non-repeating letters and onenumber (1). The answeris below.

Pilgrim meetinghouse description: The Thanksgiving Primer at www.plimoth.com/books-media/books/plimoth-plantation-publications?p=2

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