Society members, If you haven’t visited Plymouth, the Plimoth Plantation is a must see when you make the trek.  You will have to look for it as a new name, Plimoth Patuxet.  The name change is explained below and respectful of our past.  The living museum is a treasure ...

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by Alison Leigh Cowan, July 2, 2019, the New York Times PHILADELPHIA — Hers has always been one of the more astonishing, if little-known, tales of the American Revolution: a woman who stitched herself a uniform, posed as a man and served at least 17 months in an elite unit of the Continental ...

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From: Melanie McComb, NEHGS Library, Genealogist According to Mayflower Families through Five Generations, vol. 22: William Bradford, compiled by Robert S. Wakefield, fasg, and Ann Smith Lainhart (2004), pp. 137–38, Deborah Sampson was born December 17, 1760, in Plympton, Massachusetts. This ...

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by Robert J. Heinsohn* “……Having undertaken for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honor of our King and Country presents  together into a Civil Body Politic of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country a Voyage to plant the First Colony ...

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By Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. The 1627 Plimoth Plantation presented a recreation of a Pilgrim wedding ceremony on August 14, 2010. They chose to go back to the year 1623 when Governor William Bradford, whose wife Dorothy May had drowned shortly after the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620, married Eliza...

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