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| Through our Great(6)-Grandparents, Kimball and Deborah (Fuller) Prince, we are descended from five of the families who sailed on the Mayflower. In all, 11 of the 102 passengers were our ancestors, and 18 were our relatives. One of them may have even been at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, before traveling on the Mayflower. It sure makes learning about the early settlers of America a lot more personal! |
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Samantha, Christopher and Katharine Tibbitts Born September 21 & 24, 1998 in San Diego, California |
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Jonathan Christopher Tibbitts Born February 9, 1964 in Key West, Florida Married Julie Gott on May 2, 1992 |
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Jonathan Cilley Tibbitts, Jr. Born August 11, 1935 in Alameda, California Married Alison Davis on June 24, 1961 |
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Jonathan Cilley Tibbitts Born October 11, 1899 in Alameda, California Married Beatrice Braue on April 11, 1929 |
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Grace Thurber Cilley Born November 2, 1867 in Rockland, Maine Married Walter Tibbitts on September 12, 1893 |
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Jonathan Prince Cilley Born December 29, 1835 in Thomaston, Maine Married Caroline Lazell on October 10, 1866 |
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Deborah Prince Born 1808 in Thomaston, Maine Married Jonathan Cilley on April 2, 1829 |
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Hezekiah Prince Born February 7, 1771 in Kingston, Massachusetts Married Isabella Coombs before 1798 |
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| Hezekiah was an early builder of homes and churches in Midcoast Maine (then part of Massachusetts), having moved to the area in 1792. He was also a very religious man and active in his church’s affairs. He was first selectman of both Thomaston and St. George in 1803 and represented the latter town in the General Court of Massachusetts from 1808 to 1841. Hezekiah was a prodigious diarist, publishing a daybook ("Remarks of My Life: Hezekiah Prince 1786-1792"), memoirs (1792-1807) and a Commonplace Book (1808-1815). His memoirs include an account of his well-known 1,200-mile journey to Virginia on horseback, undertaken in 1793-94. Hezekiah and Isabella died within a few weeks of each other in 1840. |
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Born April 28, 1726 in Kingston, Massachusetts |
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| Captain Kimball Prince and his wife Deborah had nine children, the youngest of whom was Hezekiah. They resided in Kingston, where Kimball died in 1814 and Deborah in 1826. | ||
The William Brewster Family |
The John Billington Family The Francis Eaton Family The Samuel Fuller, Sr. Family The Stephen Hopkins Family | |
In the first years of the 17th century, several groups broke away from the Church of England because they felt that it had not completed the work of the Reformation. One of these congregations was led by William Brewster and the Rev. Richard Clifton in the village of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire. Facing continuous persecution, the Scrooby group emigrated to Holland in 1608, first to Amsterdam and then to Leiden, where, enjoying full religious freedom, they remained for almost 12 years. In 1617, discouraged by a number of factors including the loss of their children's English identity, the congregation voted to emigrate to America - though in the end fewer than half of the group's members chose to leave Leiden. A small ship, the Speedwell, carried them to Southampton, England, where they joined another group of Separatists and boarded the 180-ton Mayflower. The historic voyage began on Sept. 16, 1620, with 102 passengers, half of them from Leiden and half of them English adventurers. After a 65-day journey, the Pilgrims sighted Cape Cod on November 19. Unable to reach the land they had contracted for, they anchored at the site of Provincetown. Because they had no legal right to settle in the region, they drew up the Mayflower Compact, creating their own government. The settlers soon discovered Plymouth Harbor, on the western side of Cape Cod Bay and made their historic landing on December 21. For more information on the Pilgrims, please visit www.pilgrims.net. |
    
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