Reply #60: Thirteen

[BrotherBuzz]

Descended from proud 'Strangers' Alden and Soule who were allowed to sign the Compact. There would not have been a Mayflower Compact if there were no nonconforming 'Strangers' on board the ship with skills necessary to build a new settlement, and there lies the strength and significance of the Mayflower Compact; it was an inclusive, not exclusive document that gave everyone equal footing, and on a stretch, might be considered one of the building blocks of today's Constitution.


Izzie, one must never lose sight of the fact the the Separatist Pilgrims (Mayflower) were not connected to the Puritans who followed later and gave New England a bad name (witch trials, hell and damnation, fear, etc). The Separatists had it right, and it's sad that the Puritan movement all but displaced this idea till our founding fathers got together and crafted the Constitution 150 years later. As they say, the rest is history.


My son make makes it fourteen generations.