{"id":384,"date":"2011-11-24T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:28:31","slug":"tracing-famous-mayflower-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/tracing-famous-mayflower-passenger.html","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Famous \u2018Mayflower\u2019 Passenger Peregrine White\u2019s Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newspapers tell the story of the everyday lives of our ancestors. From articles about famous Mayflower descendants to more mundane, daily news, use newspapers to uncover unknown stories and facts about your ancestry<\/span>. We used GenealogyBank’s extensive collection of newspapers spanning nearly 400 years of American history\u00a0to trace the family tree of Peregrine White \u2013 the first Pilgrim born in the U.S!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Collage:The historical newspaper article in the upper right is an obituary of Peregrine White, \u201cthe First Englishman born in New England.\u201d He was born on board the Mayflower in the Cape Cod Harbor in November 1620! Peregrine White\u2019s obituary appeared in the <\/span>Boston News-Letter<\/span><\/a> (Boston, Massachusetts), 24 July-31 July 1704, page 2. The newspaper article below it is about a family reunion, including four generations of Peregrine White descendants, who gathered in McMinnville, Oregon. This family reunion newspaper article was published in the <\/span>Oregonian<\/span><\/a> (Portland, Oregon), 30 May 1915, Section 3, page 9.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Peregrine White\u2019s descendants were understandably proud to have such a famous ancestor, Mayflower ship passenger <\/span>and the first Pilgrim born in New England<\/span>, in their family tree. <\/span>They could be considered <\/span>famous Mayflower descendants<\/span>. This past summer, when Mary Alice (Haskell) Morey (1928-2011) died, her obituary prominently mentioned that she was a direct descendant of Peregrine White.<\/span>\"NatickHer obituary was printed by the <\/span>Natick Bulletin & TAB<\/span><\/span> (Natick, Massachusetts), 22 July 2011, page 18. Read her <\/span>complete obituary<\/span><\/span> in GenealogyBank.<\/span><\/div>\n
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With over 250,000 newspaper articles at GenealogyBank related to the Mayflower<\/span><\/a> you can learn so much more about Peregrine White and his descendants, as well as discover the other Pilgrims on board the Mayflower and their descendants.\u00a0<\/span>Research Mayflower ship passenger lists<\/a> and explore our Pilgrim ancestors\u2019 lives with newspaper articles about Plymouth Colony. Maybe you have ancestors who arrived on the Mayflower too?<\/span><\/a>
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