{"id":6721,"date":"2018-09-26T12:07:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:32:17","slug":"jetts-immigrant-ancestors-2018-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/26\/jetts-immigrant-ancestors-2018-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Jett&#8217;s immigrant ancestors, 2018 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have continued to research Jett&#8217;s rich ancestry, with a focus on her immigrant ancestors.\u00a0 I have identified\u00a0<strong>314<\/strong> such ancestors.\u00a0 Not all are rock-solid, but I am pretty comfortable with the vast majority of them.\u00a0 I will summarize a couple of relevant demographics here.<\/p>\n<pre>By country of birth:\r\n  England \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 288\r\n  Ireland \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a08\r\n  Wales \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06\r\n  Netherlands \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0  6\r\n  Scotland \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5\r\n  unknown \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01\r\n\r\nBy place of death:\r\n  MA               267\r\n  ME                13\r\n  NH                10\r\n  NY                 3\r\n  CT                 3\r\n  NJ                 2\r\n  VA                 2\r\n  Canada             2\r\n  SC                 1\r\n  England            1\r\n  Barbados           1\r\n  unknown            9\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Obviously, most of her immigrant ancestors were born in England and died in New England. However, the immigrants from Ireland (on her mother&#8217;s side) are much more recent, giving her at least 50% Irish ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>She has quite a few famous ancestors, most notably some <em>Mayflower<\/em> ancestors.\u00a0 She is directly descended from no fewer than\u00a0<strong>11<\/strong> of the 102 <em>Mayflower<\/em> passengers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hopkins_(Mayflower_passenger)\">Stephen Hopkins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constance_Hopkins\">Constance Hopkins Snow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Alden\">John Alden Sr<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Mullins_(Mayflower_passenger)\">William Mullins<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alice Atwood Mullins<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Priscilla_Alden\">Priscilla Mullins Alden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Warren\">Richard Warren<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Rogers_(Mayflower_passenger)\">Thomas Rogers Jr<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_White_(Mayflower_passenger)\">William White Sr<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susanna_White_(Mayflower_passenger)\">Susanna Fuller White<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Resolved_White\">Resolved White<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Six of these 11 (all the males except Resolved White, who was a juvenile) were among the 41 men who signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mayflower_Compact\">Mayflower Compact<\/a>, the first constitutional document written in America.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt if many Americans have a stronger link to the <em>Mayflower<\/em> than Jett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have continued to research Jett&#8217;s rich ancestry, with a focus on her immigrant ancestors.\u00a0 I have identified\u00a0314 such ancestors.\u00a0 Not all are rock-solid, but I am pretty comfortable with the vast majority of them.\u00a0 I will summarize a couple of relevant demographics here. By country of birth: England \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 288 Ireland &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/26\/jetts-immigrant-ancestors-2018-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1Kp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}