The Pennsylvania Mayflower

The Pennsylvania Mayflower
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Editor: Stacy B.C. Wood, Jr..
Co-editor: Frederick T.J. Clement, Jr.
Volume XXI, No. I
Phone: (215) 463-2422
www.SAIL1620.org
Spring, 2009
At the 2009 Annual Meeting
A
sunny day
welcomed
more than 80
members
and their
guests at the
historic
Corinthian Yacht Club on the
western shore of the
Delaware River in Essington.
SMDPA Governor Norman Robinson, a past
Enjoy Spring Tea
in Villanova
(It's like déjà vu, all
over again....)
SMDPA seems to be ripe for
Yogi Berra’s famous quote all
over again! We all fell in love
with the home of Aldys and
Murt Davis when we held our
Spring Tea there in 2006 and
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commodore
of the Yacht
Club, acted as
annual
meeting host
for the fourth
time.
The
Business
Members enjoyed the Corinthian Yacht
Meeting
Club. More pictures on page 3.
having been
called to order by Governor Robinson and Elder
Debra G. Miller having given the invocation, our
captain Richard Dana Smith, Sr. led the
Pledge of Allegiance that was followed by a
rousing singing of the National Anthem.
Reports of the officers followed with special
kudos to our webmaster, Joseph Howland
Wood.
Nominating chair Stacy Wood presented
the proposed slate by giving a short history
of the previous/current SMDPA service and
vocation of each and asking each to stand.
The slate was amended once after nominee
W. Brewster Cockrell, Esq. asked that his
name be withdrawn. By petition the seat was
filled by Deborah Markowitz. There being
no other petitions, the entire slate was
elected unanimously and it, along with
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Spring Tea
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jumped at the offer to return last year and return
we did. Aldys and Murt seem to have a mutual
feeling and have invited us back again to their
home at 256 Broughton Lane, Villanova, on
Saturday, May 16th from two to five o’clock that
afternoon.
Aracari wood from Brazil in the dining room, and
Spanish cedar in the plant room. Plant room? Aldys
is a plant and flower expert and has been a
horticultural judge for the Garden Club of America,
chaired the Fragrant Garden at Tyler Arboretum, was
corresponding secretary of the Four Counties Garden
Club, and member of the Jenkins Arboretum.
As usual the Society will provide beverages (tea,
soda, etc.) gratis. You are asked, as usual, to bring
Our late editor, John M. Hunt, Jr., wrote of
the food (cookies, cakes, biscuits, cheeses, nuts,
their home’s “tantalizing history” – its age is
th
tea-sandwiches, etc.), enough to share with five or
unknown but was probably built in the 18
century as a barn on the George Stuart estate. The six fellow tea-takers.
present dining room door is where the chicken
Please send the enclosed reservation to our
coops were! You certainly won’t think that you
hostess, SMDPA Social Events Co-chair Aldys C.
are in a barn, however. Although you will enter
Davis, at her home address: 256 Broughton Lane,
through the kitchen, beautiful paneling greets the Villanova, PA 19085-1914. Once
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eye: local black walnut in the entrance hall,
again, there is no cost.
Annual Meeting
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committee chairs appointed at
the subsequent 7 February
Board of Assistants meeting,
will be published in the next
edition of The Pennsylvania
Mayflower. Assistant Governor
General Harry P. Folger, III
conducted the induction of the
newly elected. Governor
Robinson then thanked those
vacating positions on the 2008
Board: to wit, Elder Debra G.
Miller, and Assistants Aldys
C. Davis, Deborah
Markowitz, and Lois E.
Rilling.
There was no old business.
New business consisted of
approving amendments to the
Constitution and Bylaws and
adopting the new Life fee
schedule. The latter fees now
start at $1,020 for under age 1
2
and reach the minimum $700 at
age 41. Both are available on
our SAIL1620.org website
“The Society” page.
During the social hour that
followed, members and guests
had a chance to meet our 2009
Kitty Little Award recipient,
Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG, and
her husband, John, who had
arrived the previous evening
from their Boxford, MA, home.
The Hors Councours Award
certificate received at last
year’s Triennial General
Congress was displayed, as was
our full-size 1897 facsimile
manuscript of Governor
Bradford’s history, Of Plimoth
Plantation that was open to the
page whereon he recorded what
is now known as The
Mayflower Compact. Also on
display were copies of the
e-Pennsylvania Mayflower
newsletter — the electronic
version of our newsletter.
Seventeen more members
signed up to receive the
newsletter via email, thereby
saving the Society more than
$40 in postage costs, and
allowing that money to benefit
our education programs.
Newly installed Elder The
Reverend Judith (Jay) A.
Meier gave the luncheon
invocation, and Gov. Robinson
introduced the attending
dignitaries, namely former
GSMD Governor General (and
SMDPA member) Robert E.
Davis and his wife Jeanne;
GSMD Assistant Governor
General and Assistant
Mayflower Quarterly Editor
Harry P. Folger 3rd; GSMD
Mayflower Quarterly Editor
Alice C. Teal; GSMD Juniors
Committee Chair and SMDPA
The Pennsylvania Mayflower
Assistant Debra G. Miller; SMD Delaware Deputy Governor General Noel H. Kuhrt Jr.; SMD New
Jersey Assistant General John “Jack” F. Hoffman and wife Beatrice; SMD Delaware Governor
Christine B. Crossan and husband Robin; Fuller Society president and SMDPA Treasurer Deborah A.
Yingst and husband John; Pilgrim Henry Samson Kindred Governor and SMDPA Membership Officer
Joan C. Miller and husband “Merchant Adventurer” Don; and our 11th Annual Katharine (Kitty) Fox Little
Distinguished Mayflower
Scholarship recipient Jane
Fletcher Fiske, FASG, and
her husband John.
Governor
Robinson
presented Jane
Fiske with her
framed
calligraphic
certificate, which
cites her “For
discovering, recording,
compiling, preserving,
publishing, and
facilitating the same
by others, of
genealogy and
history of the
Pilgrims.” He then
presented her with
the accompanying
check for $1,000.
See the next page
for her introduction
and comments.
Editor’s note:
SMD NJ Assistant
General Jack
Hoffman died
suddenly February
4, 2009. He was the
immediate past
president of The
Fuller Society. PM
Spring 2009
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Fiske Receives Our
th
11 Annual Kitty
Little Award
Following the 2009 Annual
Business Meeting luncheon, Gov.
Norman P. Robinson asked past
Governor Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr.
to give a short history of the Kitty
Little Award. It is quoted in part:
award (i.e., excluded from
competing or without equal).
All recipients have been
researchers and compilers.
Some have been
genealogists. Some have
been historians. Some have
“The Katharine Fox Little
been both. All have had
Distinguished Mayflower
published works. 55% do
Scholarship Award was
not have known lines to
conceived in 1998 by our late
Mayflower passengers. The
Editor John M. Hunt, Jr.and past
Gov. Norman P. Robinson presrecipients who followed
Pennsylvania Society Governor
Caroline Kardell have been:
Frederick T.J. Clement, Jr. They ents Jane Fletcher Fiske with her
certificate at the Annual Meeting.
Robert Charles Anderson,
believed that there should be a
Dr. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs,
national award to recognize
The award has been given
James W. Baker, The
outstanding achievement in
annually since then. It consists of Reverend Gary L. Marks,
scholarship and education
a large framed certificate
Alice C. Teal, Dr. Nancy W.
concerning the Mayflower and
describing the accomplishments Bauer, Edith Bates Thomas,
Plymouth Colony. The award
for which the awardee is
Nathaniel Philbrick, and
would not be given to those
honored. Unlike our Most
Peggy M. Baker.
whose work is within our state
society whom we honor with our Distinguished Pilgrim Award, it
Today we add an 11th
is also accompanied by a check
Most Distinguished Pilgrim
name: Jane Fletcher Fiske.
for $1,000.
Award. This new award was
Jane has been interested in
named the Distinguished
In 2002, following the death of genealogy for as long as she
Mayflower Scholarship Award.
long-time and much loved and
can remember and in 1983
respected Board officer Kitty
The first award was given at
earned the title Fellow,
Little, the award was renamed in American Society of
the 1999 Annual Membership
her memory at the suggestion of Genealogists.
Meeting right here at the
member Phyllis Moony.
Corinthian Yacht Club. The
She grew up outside of
recipient was the late and beloved
Last year at the General
Albany,
New York, and
Caroline L. Kardell, then the
Society’s Triennial Congress this graduated from Swarthmore
Historian General of the General award was cited as one of the
College, where she majored
Society of Mayflower
contributing factors in our state
in English Literature with
Descendants. The term
society receiving a Special
minors in philosophy and
“Historian” is used in lieu of the Recognition for Distinguished
history.
word “genealogist.”
Service Award, a Hors Concours
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Jane has asked that I keep this Generations Project.” Muriel
short so I will jump right to the
Cushing seconds this and sends
two major contributions she has her signature “hugs.”
made to Pilgrim history:
But it was her acting as
In 2005 and 2006 the General facilitator that is arguably one of
Society published her
the greatest contributions of all
compilation of the fifthtime to the history of our
generation descendants of
Plymouth Colony ancestors. It
Pilgrim Henry Samson (GSMD was Jane who, while with the
Volumes 20 Parts 2 & 3). Often New England Historic
a real joy to genealogists, she
Genealogical Society, saw the
goes beyond naming the 6th
potential of Jeremy Bangs when
generation by including their
Robert Charles Anderson (our
marriages and children. These
second recipient) brought him to
works also employ her new
her attention. She then obtained
referencing system which
her society’s backing for his
replaces superscript foot or end research and eventual relocation
notes with immediate
from Massachusetts to Leiden,
parentheses-enclosed
Holland. Many of us are aware
abbreviated sources, e.g.
of his research and publications
(Plymouth PR 11:200) for
that have followed. As Dr.
Plymouth Probate Records
Bangs, our third recipient, told
Volume 11 and Page 200. This
me when asked his opinion
new system is now required for about selecting the candidate for
all future Five Generations
our 2009 award: “this one’s
publications. She also includes a easy: Jane Fiske.” Without Jane,
list of nicknames common in the in addition to his many articles
17th – 19th centuries. You will
in the NEHGS Register and New
see these in a forthcoming Five
England Ancestors magazine,
Generations non-Mayflower
there would have been no books
passenger volume of Philip
on the town records of Scituate,
Delano of the 1621 Fortune
MA; Indian Deeds, Land
compiled by Muriel Cushing.
Transactions in Plymouth
Judy Swan, our new Mayflower Colony 1620-1691; and Pilgrim
Society Governor General, and
Edward Winslow: New
her assistant director of the Five England’s First International
Generations Project, Muriel
Diplomat. Our members would
Cushing, have sent expressions
not have ready access to his
of joy on learning of our
newer articles that he gives us to
selection of Jane for this year:
post on our SAIL1620.org
Judy says “she is invaluable to
website and, on occasion, in our
the Five Generations Project
newsletter or the Mayflower
with her knowledge,
Quarterly.
professionalism, and research
Who is Jane’s Mayflower
abilities. Jane is involved in
ancestor?
Like half of our
every publication with her work
recipients
who
have given us so
as Indexer. She also prepares
much,
Jane
can
find none.
the manuscripts for publication.
It is a joy to work with Jane and Regardless, she, Peggy Baker,
have her involved with the Five Nathaniel Philbrick, The Rev.
Gary Marks, and Jeremy Bangs,
Spring 2009
honor us by their dedication. It is
with great pleasure that I present
Jane Fletcher Fiske.”
Mrs. Fiske’s paper from
which she drew her presentation
is summarized by her as follows:
“She quoted Joseph Campbell,
who advised everyone to follow
your bliss,” as she recalled her
own years in genealogy since
moving to New England in 1970.
Discussing the history and
development of the Mayflower
Five Generations Project—with
which she became actively
involved in 2001 when asked to
work on the Henry Samson Fifth
Generation—she emphasized the
need to flesh out the bare-bones
genealogy of the early Silver
Books, in order to bring them up
to the standards of other
first-rate family histories, and to
make them appealing in their
own right. The generations “in
between” had interesting lives of
their own and deserve to be
treated as more than simply links
to a Mayflower ancestor that
makes one eligible for
membership. Changing
technologies in book production
make such expansion far easier
today than when the Project was
begun fifty years ago. The
internet is also a challenge that
must be faced, and there are
decisions to make about what
straightforward information
might be put on line and what to
publish in book form. “The most
important thing,” she concluded,
“is to ensure that the Project
continues to produce the most
reliable scholarship available on
Mayflower people, in whatever
form it may be found.”
The entire paper is posted on
our website at
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http://www.sail1620.org/.
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Leiden Tour with Jeremy Bangs
Governor’s Message
Many thanks go to Jane Fletcher Fiske,
FASG, recipient of our Katharine Fox Little
Distinguished Mayflower Scholarship Award,
and guest speaker at the 112th Annual Meeting,
for putting us in touch with Dr. Jeremy
D. Bangs of Leiden. Leiden is important
to us as it is where the Pilgrims spent 11
years after leaving England and prior to
embarking on the Speedwell to the New
World. Mrs. Fiske (Jane) and my wife,
Susie, were talking at lunch about our
impending visit to Amsterdam and
Leiden in February and Jane encouraged
us to make contact with Dr. Bangs. I had
met Jeremy last fall when he was an
honored speaker at a symposium at
Eastern College, St. Davids, PA.
through more of old Leiden to the end of the
canal to the very quai where the Pilgrims
landed when they moved there from
Amsterdam in 1609. Next we passed by the
We were a group of eleven traveling
Jeremy Bangs (facing camera) explains the history of the
with the Philadelphia Orchestra when by 14th-century Vrouwekerk (The Church of Our Lady),
prior arrangement we met Jeremy at the where the Separatists worshiped in Leiden.
Pieterskerk Church where John
student house where John Adams and his two
Robinson, Samuel Fuller’s wife and child,
along with a number of other Separatists, were sons John Quincy and Charles lived while
studying in Leiden. Of course, Jeremy made a
buried. Two Pilgrim memorials on the wall
special point of telling us about the remnants of
outside of the Pieterskerk baptismal chapel
Vrouwekerk (The Church of Our Lady). This
commemorating John Robinson and other
14th-century church where the Separatists
Separatists, were noted. As we stood nearby,
worshiped was on the verge of destruction
we witnessed a procession to the church of
students and professors in caps and gowns from when Jeremy, after much effort, convinced the
town officials of its importance. Among the
Leiden University, where they celebrated the
University’s 434th anniversary, as it opened in Pilgrim members of this church who later
settled in New England and New Amsterdam
February 1575.
(NYC) was Philip Delano, ancestor of
Continuing on our tour with Jeremy, he led
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was
us through a brick archway into William
baptized here in 1603. Now the site is well on
Brewstersteeg (a very small alley) where
its way to becoming another one of the major
William Brewster lived and with his assistant
Pilgrim historical points of interest.
Edward Winslow set type for the printing of
On our way to the Leiden American Pilgrim
religious material which, of course, had been
Museum we passed by the Leiden town hall
forbidden in England. From there we strolled
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where Pilgrim couples were the first ones to
accept civil marriage. William Bradford and
Dorothy May were registered here.
The Leiden American Pilgrim Museum is
located in a beautifully preserved house built in
ca. 1365-1370 near the clock tower of the
Hoogllandskerk. The house is extremely small
and is furnished as though it would have been
lived in by a Pilgrim family of the time. All the
furnishings and artifacts in the house, including
a collection of 16th-century and 17th-century
maps, engravings and books, illustrated aspects
of daily life involving the Pilgrims themselves.
It was fascinating to see Curator Jeremy
handling these old books and maps as he told
the story of Pilgrim life in Leiden.
also an interesting person and equally engaged
in perpetuating the Pilgrim story in Leiden.
Jeremy and Tommie joined our group for
dinner that evening back in Amsterdam and
everyone in our group expressed their
appreciation for the wonderful Pilgrim tour of
Leiden and the opportunity to get to know both
of them in an informal atmosphere over dinner.
As you know Leiden is celebrating the 400th
anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in 1609
with activities including a Mayflower group
trip and visit in Leiden. It would be nice to
have the commemorative plaque for the
Vrouwekerk church installed by then. The
story for this project was reported in the Winter
2008-2009 Pennsylvania Mayflower. It still
Jeremy has a wealth of knowledge not only needs your help. Funds are being collected at
of Dutch history but also of the Pilgrims and
GSMD — Vrouwekerk, PO Box 3297,
the full story of who, what, and why they are so Plymouth, MA 02361-3297. Make checks
important a part of our history. Jeremy was
payable to GSMD and note on the memo line
born in Oregon, received his Ph.D. degree in
“Vrouwekerk”.
1976 at the University of Leiden and, with his
wife Tommie, has lived in Leiden much of the
time since then. His story, which I don’t have
room for here, of how he became involved with
Pilgrim history and how the Leiden American Governor
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Museum came about is very interesting.
Tommie joined us at the museum, and she is
COMING
EVENT
Dr. Jeremy Bangs opens the door to the Leiden
American Pilgrim Museum (built ca. 1365-1370),
furnished as if a Pilgrim family lived there.
Spring 2009
SMDPA’s Summer Picnic will
be held Saturday, August 8, 2009.
Where? You guessed it! Conestoga
House in Lancaster. Time: Noon to
5. Honored guest will be Governor
General Judy Swan. Watch for
details in the next issue.
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Commemorating the ‘Leiden 400’
Leiden, Holland, Celebrates the
Arrival of the Pilgrims
Last year there was a “Pilgrims 400” in
Immingham, England, celebrating the successful
escape of the Pilgrims via that village to find
religious tolerance in Holland. They attempted
to settle in Amsterdam with other English, but
very quickly, however, they found that their
separatist beliefs differed greatly with those
already there. And so they looked elsewhere,
finally considering Leiden. They made
application to the Burgomasters of Leiden for
permission to settle there and received approval
on February 12, 1609 and arrived there May 1,
1609. To quote Bradford in his history, Of
Plimoth Plantation:
adventures. A bi-lingual commemorative plaque
funded by Pilgrim and Huguenot societies and
individuals in this country will be affixed to the
Vrouwekerk ruins. Events will be posted at the
Museum’s Website
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~netlapm/Pa
ge13.htm. Two tours from the U.S. have been
scheduled: one by the Pilgrim Society/Pilgrim
Hall Museum (April 28-May 6, 2009) and
another by the General Mayflower Society’s
Historic Sites Committee May 8-21, 2009). In
honor of this event, Pilgrim Hall Museum’s
major temporary exhibition for 2009
(June-December) will focus on the relationship
between early New England and The
Netherlands - from the time of the Pilgrims
through the American Revolutionary War. For
further details see www.PilgrimHall.org.
For these & some other reasons they
removed to Leyden, a fair & bewtifull citie, and
of a sweete situation, but made more famous by
ye university wherewith it is adorned, in which of
Please see our attached Junior
late had been so many learned men. But wanting
that traffike by sea which Amsterdam injoyes, it Pennsylvania Mayflower for additional
was not so beneficiall for all their outward
information about this important year.
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means of living & estate. But being now hear
pitchet they fell to such trads & imployments as
they best could; valewing peace & their
spirituall comforte above any other riches
whatsoever. And at length they came to raise a
This is the 400th anniversary of what
competente & comforteable living, but with hard
famous trio? They are not Gov. Bradford,
and continuall labor.
Elder Brewster and Edward Winslow and
Thus, this year the Leiden town fathers and
they are not mentioned in the governor’s
our friend and director of the Leiden American
history. They are not the three musketeers
Pilgrim Museum, Dr. Jeremy D. Bangs, have
although they may sound like them. They
planned a celebration to honor the Pilgrims who
have been a round for a long time! For the
spent much of eleven years there before they
answer, and what other important events
made the 1620 Mayflower voyage. The year will
happened in1609, see the attached JR PA
be marked by lectures, concerts, and an
Mayflower. You may be surprised.
exhibition about the Pilgrims’ publishing
2009 Spring PA MAY Box Question
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The Pennsylvania Mayflower
Project Preserves SMDPA Records
Philadelphia which, depending
on the residence of the Historian
may require a lengthy trip to
Some time ago, the SMDPA
retrieve an application and a
Board was shown the original
membership ledger. It was in bad second trip to return it. Thus it
was determined to also
condition although it had
previously been restored. It was microfilm the applications.
judged that no further treatment
The requirements of GSMD
would be possible. The book was are that all applications be on
fragile, and further routine
acid free paper. Supporting
handling of it was not suggested. documentation, however, was
It was determined that it had to
not. Some of the documentation
be copied, preserved and the data was chemically active and
put in a readily accessible form. having a deleterious effect on the
It became apparent that digital applications: the supporting
documentation had to be
records systems relying on
separated. The applications were
technical manipulation of
then placed in certified acid free
electronic data were subject to
mechanical and technical failures envelopes. Also quite a few
applications were found to be
as well as obsolescence of
equipment. As an example, think missing, and replacements had to
of BetaMax, 8-track tapes, 8 and be secured. After about a year of
searching, one application
5 inch floppy disks, 78 rpm
matching each SMDPA number
records, etc.
had been secured. This brought
What was chosen was
us to some 12,000+ sheets of
microfilm. Over time, microfilm paper. All were sent off for
has proven to be the best means microfilming.
of preserving and transporting
When completed, the images
data as it has a projected life of
about 500 years. The microfilm on the microfilm were scanned
into Tagged Image File Formats
is duplicated twice so that for
security it can be stored in three (TIFFs), one image per page.
distinctly different locations. The This produced 44 DVDs. These
were then converted into
microfilm is then scanned and
Portable Document Files (PDFs).
digital images are produced.
The PDFs were recorded
These images are not for
preservation, but convenience of consecutively by our SMDPA #
from 1 forward: this data filled
use.
about 3 and one half DVDs.
Once the ledger project was
Again we have some level of
completed, attention turned to
protection should something
our applications. Applications
happen to the PDFs, or should
are not stored by the Historian
the format become obsolete.
but in a repository in
New PDFs, or the replacement
By Layton H. Fireng
Secretary, SMDPA
Spring 2009
equivalent, can be made from the
TIFFs on the 44 DVDs. Should
the DVDs become unreadable, or
the format obsolete, the
microfilm can again be scanned
into the new format or
technology. For a more
pragmatic approach, all of the
PDFs of our data come to about
13 GB (gigabytes), which fill
several single layer DVDs. This
data fits easily onto a 16 GB
memory stick, which currently
costs about $40-$50.00. This
small stick can be worn with a
lanyard around the neck, is
readily mailed and can be copied
onto a hard drive. What is
significant is that we employ no
digital technology in the
preservation of our data: We use
it only for convenience in daily
operations.
It is believed that ours is the
only State Mayflower Society to
preserve its records this way,
giving us a long lasting
microfilm copy in storage that
can be used to generate any
future technological recorded
system and at the same time our
records easily usable such as on
today’s memory stick.
This project could not have
been completed without the
dedication and the many
hours contributed by Assistant
Secretary Valerie Cullen and
Historian Mimi Connelly.
Editor’s note: Those requiring
further information should
contact the SMDPA Secretary at
[email protected].
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SMDPA’s First Joan (Hurst)
Tilley Supplemental
At the final meeting of the 2008 SMDPA
Board of Assistants held just before the start
of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the
Membership, approval was given for the
first Supplemental Membership to be filed
with our society for one of the three women
passengers of the 1620 Mayflower voyage
whose maiden name is known. Applying for
society membership or supplemental
membership for Mary (Norris) Allerton,
Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins, and Joan
(Hurst) Tilley was approved by the General
Society Triennial Congress in 2005. Prior to
then, proof of the husband automatically
gave the applicant accepted descent from
the wife associated with the rest of the
proven line but no certificate was issued.
Maiden names of the other Pilgrim wives
have yet to be discovered.
Mary (Norris) Allerton, Isaac Allerton’s
first wife of three, was the mother of
Bartholomew, Remember, Mary, and two
unnamed children who died young, the
second being stillborn aboard the
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor. Mary was
apparently from Newbury, Berkshire and
died in Plymouth on 12 February 1621
(New Style). Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins
was the second wife of Stephen Hopkins.
She was the mother of Damaris (died
young), Oceanus (notable for having been
born on the Mayflower voyage), Caleb,
Deborah, Damaris, Ruth, and Elizabeth. She
was born in London on 19 February 1618
(New Style) and died in the early 1640s.
Joan (Hurst) Tilley was the widow of
Thomas Rogers (not the Pilgrim). She was
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the mother of John, Rose, Robert and
Elizabeth (who married Pilgrim John
Howland). Joan was born in Henlow,
Bedfordshire, and baptized 8 May 1563.
She died in Plymouth during the first winter
1620-1621.
This first female ancestor certificate was
issued to member The Rev. Judith A. Meier.
Later at the meeting Rev. Meier was elected
Elder of our society, a position that she had
previously held from 1999 through 2003. A
member since 1987, she had also served as
our Historian from 1993 through 1995.
Other members are invited to file
supplemental applications for these three
courageous ancestors.
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Western Colony
The Western Colony’s Spring
Luncheon is scheduled for May 3, 2009
at the Oakmont Country Club, Oakmont
PA. Time will be 12:00 social and 12:30
lunch. The speaker is to be Edward T.
Brett, Ph.D., professor, History Dept.,
La Roche College. He will be talking
about Separation of Church and State
starting with the Pilgrims.
The Western Colony’s picnic is
scheduled for July 18, 2009. A workshop
will be from 10:00 to 11:30; the picnic
will be 12:15.
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Dr. Bangs Visits Philadelphia
Premier Pilgrim historian,
Jeremy D. Bangs, PhD, visited
the Greater Philadelphia area on
October 28, 2008 when he was
guest lecturer at the Templeton
Honors College at Eastern
University in St. David’s.
Approximately 25 students and
three of our SMDPA Governors,
current Governor Norman
Robinson and past governors
Winchell Carroll and Stacy
Wood, attended the presentation
of his paper The
Pilgrims-Sojourners Traveling
towards Toleration. The paper
covered the beginnings of the
Scrooby Separatist movement,
their 1608 escape to Amsterdam
where they tried to settle among
the Separatist groups already
there and their eventual move to
Leiden in 1609. His presentation
was followed by a conversation
with two members of the faculty
and then questions from the
audience.
Dr. Bangs displayed an early
Dutch book referring to the
English (i.e. Pilgrims) in Leiden
and a beautiful approximately 4”
x 6” piece of early 17th century
tile found beneath the current
floor of the Pilgrim Pastor John
Robinson’s Leiden house. Both
items will be part of Pilgrim
Hall’s “Year of the Pilgrims”
exhibit this year that
commemorates the 400th
anniversary of the arrival of the
Pilgrims in Leiden.
The Templeton Foundation
which sponsored Dr. Bangs
lecture also scheduled visits to
school assemblies. Under the
auspices of the James Madison
Program and other
organizations, he then
participated in a symposium
titled Reflections on Religious
Liberty at Princeton University.
The symposium also celebrated
the Pilgrims’ Leiden arrival
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anniversary. Participating
speakers reflected on the status
of religious freedom around the
world, asking the question
“What has gone wrong for
millions of people whose
freedom has been violated.”
They also took a closer look at
instances where religious
freedom thrives.
Known to many as a
published author of many
articles and books about the
Pilgrims, Dr. Bangs has also
written books such as Swiss
Sisters Separated: Pioneer Life
in Kansas, Oklahoma, and
Washington and Letters of
Toleration: Dutch Aid to
Persecuted Swiss and Palatine
Mennonites, 1615-1699. Many
of Dr. Bangs’ Pilgrim articles
are archived on the
Pennsylvania Mayflower
Society’s www.sail1620.org
website.
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fundraising for a worthy cause.The event is
currently scheduled for the fall of 2010 but
there is a lot of coordination that must happen
in order to make this event a success.
Would you like to join our effort? We're
Our society is planning an exciting, first-ever looking for dedicated supporters to work
together and help plan what is sure to be a
black-tie dinner/dance. The purpose of the
event is to raise funds for our society's various grand evening. For more information, please
contact Peter Zelov, preferably by email at
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come together for an evening of fun and
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New on Our Website
Index of Events and
Individuals Named in Mourt’s
Relation
Compiled by and introduction by
Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr.
Mourt’s Relation is the earliest
known eyewitness account of the
Pilgrims’ first seven months in
New England plus a few
additional events up through
November 1621. It was published
in 1622 in London. Its writing
precedes William Bradford’s
account, Of Plimoth Plantation,
by a decade and the subsequent
publication of Bradford’s by 234
years. Mourt’s Relation, as it is
commonly known, in fact has a
seventy word title: A Relation Or
Journal of the beginning and
proceedings of the English
Plantation settled at Plymouth in
New England, by certain English
Adventurers both Merchants and
others. With their difficult
passage, their safe arrival, their
joyful building of, and
comfortable planting themselves
in the now well defended Town of
New Plymouth. As Also a Relation
of Four several discoveries since
made by some of the same English
Planters there resident. (The titles
of the four discourses then
follow.) Thus it is obviously
known by its short title, Mourt’s
Relation, a G. Mourt having
written the introduction. As no
authors’ names appear, scholars
believe that, based on known
writing style, it was written by
William Bradford and Edward
Winslow. Also missing is a much
needed index.
An index has been compiled
from the Dwight B. Heath
modernized and indexless edition
published as Mourt’s Relation, A
Journal of the Pilgrims at
Plymouth (Bedford, MA:
Applewood Books, 1963).
References to God and the
Apostles are not included.
Footnotes are indicated by “n.” It
consists of two parts: Events and
Names. To access it: Go to our
web site, www.Sail1620.org .
Then in the “Search” box in upper
right corner type in index events
(leave space between “index” and
“events”).
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Susquehanna Colony
Jerry Ellis
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Spring meeting: Saturday, May 2, 2009, at the Calvary
United Methodist Church, 4700 Locust Lane, Harrisburg.
Social time 11:45, Lunch 12:15, Meeting 12:30. Guest
speaker is Jerry Ellis, Archivist, PA State Archives.
Please contact Colony Governor Joan Miller by telephone
or email if you plan to attend: (717) 757-4523 or
[email protected].
The Pennsylvania Mayflower
Mayflower And Me –
A K-12 Curriculum
By Debra G. Miller
If you have ever asked yourself these
following questions, or if you do not know the
answer to these questions, you can find them
in the Mayflower and Me K-12 curriculum:
What is the TRUE STORY about
Thanksgiving? What is the true STORY about
the PILGRIMS without MYTHS and MISCONCEPTIONS? What did King JAMES I
have to do with the Pilgrims? Is the
MAYFLOWER COMPACT our country's first
form of government? What information about
the PILGRIMS can be found in
William Bradford’s Journal, Of
Plymouth Plantation? How did
102 Saints and Strangers
survive 66 days at sea? Did you
know TWO ships were
originally to bring the
PILGRIMS to America? How
did they survive the first
winter? How many died and
were born on their trip across
the Atlantic Ocean? How many
died the first winter? Where did they live for
12 years before leaving for the New World
(not England)? What Pilgrim was charged with
murder? What Pilgrim spent countless hours
and days writing about the Native People? Did
you know that some Pilgrims were indentured
servants for seven years? What do you know?
What do you not know? What would you like
to know? Could you have survived on faith
alone?
At the September 2008 Triennial Congress,
I presented before the General Congress in
Massachusetts a three-year curriculum project
called Mayflower and Me – A K-12
Curriculum. After writing my thesis on the
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myths and misconceptions of the Pilgrim
Story, the transition from what had been a
written document to the implementation of a
K-12 curriculum became a reality. I am
living an educator's dream, a mother’s hope
for her daughter, and a personal pursuit of
passion.
The Mayflower and Me curriculum is a
collection of lesson plans that can be
modified for most audiences, from school
settings to hospital settings. My hope after
completing this curriculum was to contribute
and pass along the
philosophy of not holding
onto one's knowledge for
oneself, but rather spreading
what we know and learning
what we do not know. If we
do this, an educational
transformation will spread to
those hands that are closed
from those hands that are
open. Won’t you join me? Go
to learn how you can be a
part of this transformation.
For an introductory offer of $102.00 plus
shipping you will receive a DVD with two
12-minute movies, handouts,
teacher/student-friendly lesson plans,
pictures, online, hybrid and classroom lesson
plans, and support.
[Editor’s note: Deb Miller was appointed
Chair of the GSMD Juniors Committee. She
serves as our SMDPA Assistant, Assistant
Governor of the Susquehanna Colony, and
Chairs the Education Committee of the
Pilgrim Henry Samson Kindred. Her
Mayflower and Me – A K-12 curriculum has
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been sponsored in part by SMDPA.].
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The Cook's Corner
Crab Cakes
with
Lemon Butter Sauce
The Crab Cakes
Ingredients
12 oz raw, small shrimp, peeled, deveined
and squeezed dry
2 whole egges
2 T Dijon mustard
2 T Worcestershire
1 T Tabasco
1 C heavy cream
1 lb Fresh jumbo or lump crabmeat (picked
clean), pasteurized may be substituted
3/4 t salt
3/4 t ground pepper
2 T fresh chives (chopped) or 4 scallions
(cut into thin rings)
Bread crumbs
Preparation
Make mix the day before
Prep time: approx. 20 minutes
1. In food processor place shrimp, egg,
mustard, Worcestershire and Tabasco and
puree on high speed until smooth..
2. Scrape down sides with rubber spatula.
3. Process again while slowly pouring in
heavy cream.
4. In separate bowl, place crabmeat, chives
or scallions and season with salt and
pepper.
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How to Cook
1. Coat a baking sheet
with olive oil.
2. Lightly coat crab
cakes with bread
crumbs and place on
the oil- lined
baking sheet.
3. Bake at 400°F for 10
to 15 minutes or until
golden-brown.
4. Using a spatula, flip over the crab cakes and finish
baking for approximately 10 more minutes until the
cakes are firm and spring back to the touch.
Lemon Butter Sauce
Ingredients
1 Shallot (finely diced)
4 oz white wine
1 lemon, juice of and zest
1 C heavy cream
4 oz lightly salted butter
Preparation
Prep time: 20 minutes
1. In small sauce pot add wine, shallot, lemon juice and
zest.
2. Using medium heat reduce by one half.
3. Add cream and bring back to a low simmer.
4. Next slowly whisk in the butter a little at a time.
5. Strain and keep warm.
The Chef
Franklin Miller, Chef De Cuisine, Old Guard
House Inn, Gladwyne, PA (guardhouseinn.com),
is the son of former SMDPA Board member Janet
Springer, 14th-generation descendant from James
Chilton.
The Pennsylvania Mayflower
JUNIOR PA MAYFLOWER
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
VOL. 9 NO. 1
EXTRA
WWW.SAIL1620.ORG
SPRING 2009
PERMISSION GRANTED!
Amsterdam, Holland, February 1608. Word has been
received that the Burgomeisters of Leiden on 12 February
granted permission for our members to settle in their city.
Preparations are being made to relocate by June to that
faire and beautiful city.
2009 ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY YEAR Last year
was the year of “Pilgrim 400” celebrating the successful
escape of the Pilgrims from Immingham, Humberside,
England to Amsterdam, Holland.
Thus this year we can celebrate another Pilgrim anniversary. After receiving permission on 12 Feb 1608 to
settle in Leiden, the Pilgrims were able to relocate there
78 days later on 1 May 1609. (See Whoa! next column)
In the main newsletter to which our JR PA Mayflower is
attached you can read what is planned in celebration. You
might wish to visit the associated Websites listed there.
The Leiden American Pilgrim Museum site even has an
excellent slide show of present day Leiden.
1609 was a year of many notable happenings: One of
the world’s first newspapers, Avisa Relation oder Zeitung,
was published in Augsburg, Germany; the first public library in continental Europe,
the Biblioteca Ambrosiana,
was opened in Milan; the first
bank, Amsterdamsche Wisselbank (Amsterdam Bank)
opened; the first quarto of the
Catholic Douai Bible was published; the first opera, La
Amsterdamsche Wisselbank
Favola d’Orfeo (the Legend of
Amsterdam, Holland.
Orpheus) was published by
Claudio Monteverdi; Philip III of Spain expelled from Valencia, Spain, the Moriscos (“Moor-like” converted Muslims to Catholicism believed to be practicing Islam secretly); Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II granted numerous Protestants freedom of religion; Japan seized Okinawa; Henry Hudson began his exploration for the East
India Company on the Half Moon and discovered and explored the Delaware Bay and the Hudson River; Spain and
The Netherlands signed a 12 year peace pact as did England and France; Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first
telescope to Venetian lawmakers; the ship Sea
Map showing Amsterdam (right arrow) and Leiden (left arrow).
Venture, with future Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins aboard, was shipwrecked on Bermuda which became
a British colony; at what is now Crown Point, NY, Samuel
de Champlain fought on the side of the Huron against the
Iroquois and claimed Lake Champlain; Capt. John Smith
was replaced as governor of Jamestown Colony; the
Dutch East India Company first imported tea to Europe;
Warsaw became the capital of Poland; astronomer Johannes Kepler published planetary motion laws; the thermostat was invented by Cornelius Drebbel; Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius died; Shakespeare
published Troilus and Cressida and Sonnets; the children’s round “Three Blind Mice” was published by
Thomas Ravenscroft in London; and Moses Fletcher, Jr.,
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son of the Pilgrim, and Elizabeth Rogers, 5 child of Pilgrim Thomas Rogers were born.
WHOA! You might say: “Isn’t that a typo, and if not,
shouldn’t it be a year and 78 days later?” No: Until 1752
the new year began on 25 March so 24 March 1608 would
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Any comments about this newsletter? The editor would like to
hear them. Please address them to Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr., Editor, JR PA Mayflower at 1530 S. Juniper St., Philadelphia, PA
19147-6218 or by e-mail to [email protected].
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have been followed by 25 March 1609.
Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. established a twelve month calendar that has been named for him: The Julian Calendar. We
also call it the Old Style (O.S.) Calendar. Even though the
first day of the new year was 25 March, the whole month of
March was known as the first month. The months September through December by their names still reflect the Latin
numerical order of those months, Septem being the Latin for
seven, Octo for eight, Novem for nine, Decem for ten. Most
of the names of other months were assigned during the Julian period for Roman gods and the emperors Julius (July)
and Augustus (August) who reformed the calendar and
named the sixth month for himself. They were named as follows: Januarius (January) named for Janus the god of gates/
doorways, Februarius (February) for the festival of purification, Martius (March) for Mars the god of war, Aprilis
(April) for Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty, Maius
(May) for Maia the goddess of Spring, and Junius (June) for
Juno goddess of marriage and the well-being of women.
To bring the church holidays into the proper seasons,
Pope Gregory XIII (1502-85) and his astronomer and mathematician created what is known as the Gregorian or New
Style (N.S.) Calendar in 1582. This also required eliminating ten days in October of that year so that 4 October 1582
was followed by 15 October 1582. He moved the first of the
new year to January 1.
Some cultures continue to base the start of the new year
on a lunar calendar. For the Chinese, Vietnamese (Tet) and
others it starts in late January to mid February (26 January
this year). For the Hebrews (Rosh Hashanah) it was 9
February this year. The Islamic new year (Muharram), also
based on the lunar calendar, is on 18 December this year.
Protestant countries did not generally adopt the Gregorian
Calendar until 1752 although Scotland celebrated New
Year’s day as 1 January in 1600. If you read Governor
William Bradford’s history Of Plimoth Plantation, you will
find that most chapters starts in the Spring, usually around
April and that letters he received and included use the Julian
year. Because of this, a system called Double Dating was
used in Great Britain, colonial British America and other
British possessions until 1752. Alaska maintained the Julian
year until 1867 because until then it was part of Russia.
You will see evidence of this sometimes on records and
gravestones surviving from that period that might read 19
February 1724/5. At least one stone on Burial Hill in Plymouth looks like there is a fraction at the end of the year.
Instead of listing a double year, you can convert those three
months to the Gregorian year and by adding “N.S.”
In 1752 another major change took place but we won’t
cover that now.
CALENDAR: From the Latin word Calendarium meaning accountbook.
Spring 2009
The Adoration of the Shepherds.
Painted in 1609 by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
PILGRIM CONTEMPORARIES
Artists: El Greco (“the Greek”) 1541-1614; Michelangelo
Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).
Scientists: Cornelius Drebbel (1572-1633); Galileo Galilei
(1564-1642); Johannes Kepler (1571-1630).
Theatre: Benjamin Johnson (1572-1637); William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
Musicians: Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672); Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643); Thomas Ravenscroft (1592-1635);
Thomas Campion (1567-1620); Michael Praetorius (15711621); John Caprario aka John Cooper (c. 1575-1626).
State Leaders: James 1 of England; Christian IV of Denmark; Henry IV of France; Rudolf II the Holy Roman Emperor; Philip III of Spain; Charles IX of Sweden; Ahmed I of
the Ottoman Empire; Leonardo Donato, Doge of Venice;
Wanli, Ming Dynasty Emperor of China; Go-Yozei, Emperor
of Japan.
Galilio Galilei
William Shakespeare
King James I
ANSWER: The 400 year old trio: “Three blind mice, three blind
mice, see how they run, see how they run. They all ran after the
farmer’s wife, who cut off their tails with a carving knife, did you
ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice?”
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WHICH ITEMS ABOVE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH
THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS?
1) Claudio Monteverdi; 2) Galileo; 3) Henry Hudson; 4)
King James I; 5) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; 6)
Gregory XIII; 7) Thomas Ravenscroft; 8) Wanli; 9) William
Shakespeare.
ANSWERS: 1 = I Music; 2 = B His actual Telescope; 3 =
H His Ship Half Moon; 4 = E James’ Crown of England; 5 =
C Paint Brush; 6 = F Pope’s Symbol; 7 = A “Three Blind
Mice”; 8 = G Chinese Writing; 9 = Globe Theatre, London.
AMAZED THAT THEY GOT THERE!
Can you get the Pilgrims from Amsterdam to Leiden?
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A 1609 16 X 20 WORDSEARCH The following words are
found in this issue. All are spelled the way they appear in the
articles. The unused letters answer the question “What event
will take place during the celebration in Leiden?” THE
WORDS: AMBROSIANA; AMSTERDAM; ANNIVERSARY; ARMINIUS; ASTRONOMER; AUGSBURG;
BERMUDA; BIBLIOTECA; BRITISH; BURGOMEISTERS; CAESAR; CALENDAR; CAMPION; CARAVAGGIO; CHAMPLAIN; COLONY; CUT; DECEM; DOUAI;
ENGLAND; GALILEO; GODS; GREGORY; HOLLAND;
HUMBERSIDE; IMMINGHAM; IROQUOIS;
JAMESTOWN; JANUS; JOHNSON; JULIAN; KEPLER;
LEIDEN; MARS; MICE; MONTEVERDI; MORISCOS;
MUHARRAM; OCTO; ORPHEUS; PHILIP; PLANETARY;
RAVENSCROFT; ROMAN; SHAKESPEARE; TET; VALENCIA; WISSELBANK.
Leiden Canal.
Leiden American
Pilgrim Museum.
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Leiden Coat of
Arms and Flag.
The port of Amsterdam where they
lived for one year
before relocating to
Leiden in 1609.
MAYFLOWER SUDOKU
Next time we will try to have a proper grid.
UNUSED LETTERS FROM 1609 16 x 20 WORDSEARCH:
“A VROUWEKERK PLAQUE DEDICATION.”
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Spring 2009
A PAGE TO COLOR
Perhaps you might add some clouds, birds and the Leiden flag.
From The Pilgrim Story - A Picture Book For Coloring by Charles H. Overly. Courtesy of Plimoth Plantation.
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Driving Directions: 256 Broughton Lane, Villanova
Starting Point: US Route 30 (Lancaster Pike), Villanova, in view of Villanova University.
1. On US-30 (Lancaster Ave), near Villanova University’s brick fieldhouse and football
stadium, start out going NORTHEAST on S. ITHAN AVE toward COUNTY LINE RD.
Go 0.2 miles. You will go under a bridge just before you have to turn.
2. Once under the bridge, turn LEFT onto COUNTY LINE RD. Go 0.1 miles.
3. Turn RIGHT onto BROUGHTON LN. Go 0.2 miles.
Total distance: 0.64 miles. The Davises’ house is on the left. The number “256” is on the mailbox post.
Alternative Approach
US Route 30, western corner of Villanova University.
1. Start out going NORTHEAST on SPROUL RD / PA-320. Continue to follow PA-320. Go
0.6 miles.
2. Turn RIGHT onto COUNTY LINE RD. Go 0.1 miles.
3. Turn LEFT onto BROUGHTON LN. Go 0.2 miles.
Reservation Form
SMDPA Spring Tea 2009
Where:
Home of Aldys (Mrs. Murdoch) Davis
256 Broughton Lane
Villanova, PA 19085-1914
Telephone: 610-525-6144
When:
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 2 to 5 PM
I / We reserve________________place(s) at the Spring Tea at the Davises’ in Villanova.
Name (s)
Telephone number (s)
Please bring a dish of your choosing — enough to serve six.
Beverages will be provided. Send no money.
RSVP before May 8 to
Mrs. J. Murdoch Davis
256 Broughton Lane
Villanova, PA 19085-1914
Telephone 610-525-6144
Don't Miss the Spring Tea
Please see other
side of this cover
for written
directions to the
Davises’ in
Villanova, site of
our Spring Tea
May 16.
Society of Mayflower Descendants
1001 Ave C Apt 2B
Bayonne, NJ 07002
Address Service Requested
First Class Mail
RSVP
for
Spring Tea
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