Peregrine White
Peregrine White (20 November 1620 aboard the Mayflower, docked at Provincetown Harbor, Provincetown, Massachusetts – 20 July 1704 in Marshfield, Massachusetts) was the first English child born to the Pilgrims in the New World.
His parents, William and Susanna, named him "Peregrine", which means: "one who journeys to foreign lands" or "pilgrim." Soon after the landing, William died, and Susanna married Edward Winslow. Winslow adopted Peregrine and his older brother, Resolved, and made them his heirs. [1]
Records state that White held some minor civil and military posts. The records also mention that he and his now-wife Sarah were fined "for fornication before marriage or contract." [2] The couple married on 14 December 1646, and had 7 children.
White traveled to England with Winslow, but returned to Massachusetts before his death at the age of eighty-three.
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[edit] References
- ^ "The General society of Mayflower descendants: meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants General Society of Mayflower Descendants (The De Vinne press, 1901), 441. Accessed July 7, 2009 on Google Books
- ^ "Peregrine White in 17th Centurt Records" Pilgrim Hall.org Accessed 7 December 2009
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- "The General society of Mayflower descendants: meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants General Society of Mayflower Descendants (The De Vinne press, 1901), p. 441
