PLYMOUTH,MASSACHUSETTS PILGRIM LOOKUPS

I will doing lookups from the book "Saints and Strangers" by George F. Willison. This book contains an appendix listing the passengers on the original pilgrim ships. The cost for these lookups is $2.50 per page. There is no fee if the name is not found. If the name is found I will photocopy all pages from the book containing the name you wish searched. If you prefer typewritten pages with larger letters it will be an additional $2.50 per page.

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with the first and last name (or family name) of the person
you want me to search. Include birth, marriage, or death dates if known.
I will lookup the name and let you know if I have found any information for this person. If no information is found you will owe nothing.
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The CONTENTS of the Book include:

Preface
Prologue - Plymouth Rock: Epic Symbol
Chapter 1 Young William Brewster
Chapter 2 The Lord's Free People
Chapter 3 In Holland
Chapter 4 Stormy Passage
Chapter 5 Discoveries
Chapter 6 New Plimoth Planted
Chapter 7 On Their Own
Chapter 8 Fortune
Chapter 9 Wrecking a Rival
Chapter 10 Freeholders All
Chapter 11 Stranger Troubles
Chapter 12 Purchasers and Undertakers
Chapter 13 Plymouth and the Bay Saints
Chapter 14 Rich all on ye Sudaine
Chapter 15 Financial Crash, with Halleluiah!
Chapter 16 Reform - Backwards
Chapter 17 Restoration, Education, and Other Matters
Chapter 18 Old Colony's Early Demise
Epilogue: Oblivion and Resurrection
Appendix A: The Pilgrim Company
Summary
Selective Bibliography
Appendix B: Officers of the Old Colony and of the Pilgrim Church
Appendix C: The Mayflower Compact, November 11, 1620

Following is an excerpt from the book:

APPENDIX A
THE PILGRIM COMPANY
Who should properly be included in the Pilgrim Company?
The question is almost wholly one of definition. Many lists have been drawn, some more inclusive than others. By the criteria I have chosen to use, which are as broad as they can reasonably be made, the company includes:
(a) all "saincts", "strangers", hired hands, and indentured servants who came on any of the Pilgrims' ship - Mayflower, Fortune, Anne, Little James, Talbot, Handmaid, or second Mayflower
(b) all members of the Green Gate congregation who came at any other time, either soon or late
(c) those of the merchant adventurers who settled in the colony
(d) all others who settled at Plymouth and were granted land there before 1631 (such as Phineas Pratt, a refugee from Wessagusset, and those who came with John Oldham "on their perticuler").

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