The Mayflower Pilgrims were a group of English Puritans and Separatists who sailed to the New World in 1620 aboard the Mayflower, seeking religious freedom and a new life in America. Originating mainly from the counties of Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire, many of the Pilgrims were part of the Separatist movement, dissenting from the Church of England. Their journey and settlement at Plymouth Colony laid the foundation for early colonial society, and their genealogies are carefully traced through church records, wills, and town registries in England, as well as meticulous records maintained in New England. Families such as the Aldens, Brewsters, Carvers, and Allertons became prominent in early colonial history, with descendants spreading across the American colonies. Genealogical research into the Mayflower passengers has become a major field of study, preserving the legacy of these early settlers and highlighting the interconnections between English roots and colonial America.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
A biographical sketch of Elkanah Watson, with a brief genealogy of the Watson family, early settled in Plymouth colony - W. R. Deane (1864)
A brief history of the First Church in Plymouth, from 1606 to 1901 - J. Cuckson (1902)
A brief history of the Pilgrims - A. S. Burbank (1920)
A collection of original papers relative to the History of the colony of Massachusets-bay - T. Hutchinson (1769)
A discourse, delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In commemoration of the first settlement of New-England - D. Webster (1825)
A finger-pointed from Plymouth Rock - C. Sumner (1853)
A genealogy of the descendants of John Thomson of Plymouth, Mass. Also sketches of families of Allen, Cooke and Hutchinson - C. H. Thompson (1890)
A history of the Allerton family in the United States, 1585 to 1885, and a genealogy of the descendants of Isaac Allerton, Mayflower pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass., 1620 - W. S. Allerton (1900)
A memorial of the pilgrim fathers - S. Buckingham (1867)
A record of the names of the passengers on the good ship Mayflower in December, 1620 - H. Folger (1920)
A sermon delivered at Plimouth, December 22, 1801, commemorative of the pious ancestry, who first imigrated to that place, 1620 - J. Allyn (1802)
A sermon, in commemoration of the landing of the New-England Pilgrims - J. Chester (1820)
Address of President Roosevelt on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of the Pilgrim memorial monument - T. Roosevelt (1907)
An account of the Pilgrim celebration at Plymouth, August 1, 1853 - The Pilgrim Society (1853)
An address at Forefathers' convocation, Sunday, December 13, 1896 - A. S. Draper (1896)
An address, delivered before the New England society - R. C. Winthrop (1840)
Ancient landmarks of Plymouth - W. T. Davis (1899)
Biographical sketches of the fathers of New England - M. Clark (1836)
Bradford's history of the Plymouth settlement, 1608-1650 - W. Bradford (1920)
Brief sketch of the character and sufferings of the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth - unknown author (1820)
Broadsides, ballads, etc. printed in Massachusetts 1639-1800 - W. C. Ford (1922)
By-laws and regulations with membership roll - Society of Mayflower descendants in the State of Maine (1908)
Cape Cod and the Old colony - A. P. Brigham (1920)
Catalogue of the historical collection and pictures in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth - Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) (1903)
Chief of the Pilgrims, or, The life and time of William Brewster ruling elder of the Pilgrim company that founded New Plymouth, the parent colony of New England, in 1620 - A. Steele (1857)
Chronicles of the first planters of the colony of Massachusetts Bay from 1623 to 1636 - A. Young (1846)
Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers - J. Masefield (1920)
Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers of the colony of Plymouth, from 1602-1625 - A. Young (1841)
Clarke-Clark genealogy - records of the descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 - W. W. Johnson (1884)
Collections concerning the church or congregation of Protestant separatists formed at Scrooby in north Nottinghamshire, the founders of New-Plymouth, the parent-colony of New-England - J. Hunter (1854)
Collections concerning the early history of the founders of New Plymouth, the first colonists of New England - J. Hunter (1849)
Correspondence of William Shirley, governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760 Vol. 1 (1912)
Death records from the ancient burial ground at Kingston, Massachusetts - T. B. Drew (1905)
Diary kept by Capt. Lawrence Hammond (publ. 1892)
Diary of Samuel Sewall. 1674-1729. Vols. 1 & 2 - S. Sewall (1878)
Dunham genealogy. Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1589-1669. And his descendants - I. W. Dunham (1907)
From Scrooby to Plymouth Rock or, The men of the Mayflower - H. Johnson (1896)
From the Mayflower to Lincoln - W. Lloyd (1889)
Fruits of the Mayflower; or, Conversations respecting the Pilgrim Fathers (1849)
George Morton of Plymouth Colony and some of his descendants - J. K. Allen (1908)
Good newes from New-England or, A true relation of things very remarkable at the plantation of Plimoth in New-England - E. Winslow (1624)
Greene (Green) family of Plymouth colony - R. H. Greene (1909)
Guide to Plymouth and recollections of the Pilgrims - W. S. Russell (1846)
Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts - its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs - F. Perkins (1902)
Historical sketches of John Moses, of Plymouth, a settler of 1632 to 1640 ... also a genealogical record of some of their descendants Vols. 1 & 2 - Z. Morris (1890)
History of Brockton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1656-1894 - B. Kingman (1895)
History of North Bridgewater, Plymouth county, Massachusetts from its first settlement to the present time, with family registers Vols. 1 & 2 - B. Kingman (1866)
History Of Plimoth Plantation, from the original manuscript, with a report of the proceedings incident to the return of the manuscript to Massachusetts - W. Bradford (1898)
History of the discovery of America, of the landing of our forefathers at Plymouth, and of their most remarkable engagements with the Indians in New England - H. Trumbull (1802)
History of the early settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, including an extensive Family register - N. Mitchel (1840)
History of the Free churchmen called the Brownists, Pilgrim fathers and Baptists in the Dutch republic, 1581-1701 - J. Scheffer (1922)
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization Vols. 1 & 2 - J. D. Sawyer (1922)
History of the town of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement - B. Hobart (1866)
History of the town of Plymouth, from its first settlement in 1620, to the present time - J. Thacher (1835)
Homes and haunts of the Pilgrim fathers - A. MacKennal (1920)
In the days of the Pilgrim fathers - M. C. Crawford (1920)
John Cary the Plymouth pilgrim - S. C. Cary (1911)
John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers, a study of his life and times - W. H. Burgess (1920)
Lays of the Pilgrim fathers - B. Scott (1861)
Longfellow's country - H. A. Clarke (1913)
Mayflower descendants and their marriages for two generations after the landing (1922)
Mayflower essays ... as told in Governor Bradford's MS. History of the Plimoth Plantation, with a reproduction of Captain John Smith's map of New England - G. C. Blaxland (1896)
Mayflower Pilgrim descendants in Cape May County, New Jersey ... a record of the Pilgrim descendants who early in its history settled in Cape May County - P. Howe (1921)
Memoir of John Endecott, first governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay - C. Endicott (1847)
Memoranda, historical, chronological, etc. prepared with the hope to aid those whose interest in Pilgrim memorials, and history, is freshened by this jubilee year - H. M. Dexter (1870)
Memorials of Robert Lawrence, Robert Bartlett, and their descendants - H. B. Lawrence (1888)
Miles Standish, captain of the pilgrims - J. Abbott (1872)
New light on the Pilgrim story - T. W. Mason (1920)
Notes on the Massachusetts Royal Commissions, 1681-1775 - A. Matthews (1913)
Obedience to rulers--the duty and its limitations. A discourse delivered December 22d, 1850, on the two hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims - W. Love (1851)
Old Pilgrim days - L. H. Monk (1920)
Old Plymouth days and ways; eighteenth century celebrations of the landing of the Pilgrims - E. S. Crandon (1921)
One soweth and another reapeth. Or, New Englands indebtedness to the Pilgrim fathers - J. Hawes (1859)
Our Pilgrim forefathers - L. A. Nelson (1904)
Our Plymouth forefathers - the real founders of our republic - C. S. Hanks (1908)
Pageantry and the Pilgrim tercentenary celebration (1620-1920) - B. R. Lewis (1920)
Pilgrim Alden; the story of the life of the first John Alden in America with the interwoven story of the life and doings of the Pilgrim colony - A. E. Alden (1902)
Pilgrim memorials, and guide to Plymouth - W. S. Russell (1866)
Pilgrim notes and queries - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1913)
Pilgrim Tercentenary - observances at Plymouth, December 21, 1920 and the summer of 1921 (1920)
Pilgrims and Puritans - the story of the planting of Plymouth and Boston - N. M. Tiffany (1888)
Plymouth and the pilgrims - A. Lord (1920)
Plymouth and the Pilgrims - J. Banvard (1851)
Plymouth county marriages, 1692-1746 (1900)
Plymouth tercentenary - illustrated with a brief history of the life and struggles of the Pilgrim fathers, including original program of the Pilgrim spirit - H. Bloomingdale (1921)
Plymouth's Rock the rock whence we were hewn. - R. W. Cushman (published 1855)
Poems of the pilgrims - Z. H. Spooner (1882)
Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England Vols. 1 & 2 - New Plymouth Colony (1855)
Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England Vols. 3 & 4 - New Plymouth Colony (1855)
Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England Vols. 5 & 6 - New Plymouth Colony (1855)
Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England Vols. 7 & 8 - New Plymouth Colony (1855)
Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England Vols. 9 & 10 - New Plymouth Colony (1855)
Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England Vols. 11 & 12 - New Plymouth Colony (1855)
Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. From 1628 to 1641 (1850)
Records of the Court of assistants of the colony of the Massachusetts bay, 1630-1692 Vols. 1 - 3 - J. Noble (1901)
Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts ... and genealogical records of many of the old families Vols. 1 - 3 - J.H. Beers & Co. (1912)
Return of the Pilgrim fathers - A. E. Keigwin (1920)
Richard Higgins - a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants - K. Higgins (1918)
Searstan family of Colchester, England, landed at Plymouth, May 8, 1630 (1800)
Signers of the Mayflower compact - A. A. Haxtun (1896)
Songs of the pilgrims - M. D. Bisbee (1887)
Standish of Standish. A story of the Pilgrims Vols. 1 & 2 - J. G. Austin (1895)
Stories of the Pilgrims - M. B. Pumphrey (1912)
The achievement of the centuries - W. G. Harding (1921)
The alliance between Pilgrim and Puritan in Massachusetts - T. W. Higginson (1900)
The American spirit as expressed in the First settlement of New England - D. Webster (1920)
The Argonauts of faith; the adventures of the Mayflower Pilgrims - B. J. Mathews (1920)
The arrival of the Pilgrims - J. F. Jameson (1920)
The Avery, Fairchild & Park families of Massachusetts, Connecticut & Rhode Island, with a short narration of facts concerning Mr. Richard Warren, Mayflower passenger - S. Avery (1919)
The Barker family of Plymouth Colony and County - B. Newhall (1900)
The Brewster genealogy, 1566-1907; a record of the descendants of William Brewster of the Mayflower Vols. 1 & 2 - E. C. Jones (1908)
The builders of a nation, a history of the Pilgrim fathers - F. G. Beardsley (1921)
The central principle, an oration delivered before the New England Society of New York, December 22, 1853 - M. Hopkins (1854)
The coming of the Mayflower - R. Kimball (1920)
The compact with the charter and laws of the Colony of New Plymouth - W. Brigham (1836)
The courtship of Miles Standish and other poems - H. W. Longfellow (1900)
The diary and letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson - captain-general and governor-in-chief of his late Majesty's province of Massachusetts Bay in North America Vols. 1 & 2 - T. Hutchinson (1883)
The Ely ancestry - lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, who came to Boston, Mass., about 1655, & settled at Lyme, Conn. in 1660 - M. Beach (1902)
The fathers of New England - J. A. Albro (1845)
The fathers of New England - S. Dutton (1851)
The Finding of the Mayflower - J. R. Harris (1920)
The first record-book of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1904)
The founding of a nation; the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers Vol. 1 - F. M. Gregg (1915)
The founding of a nation; the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers Vol. 2 - F. M. Gregg (1915)
The genesis of the New England churches - L. Bacon (1874)
The Giles memorial. Genealogical memoirs of the families bearing the names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson, and Webb - J. Vinton (1864)
The graves of Myles Standish and other pilgrims - E. Huiginn (1892)
The heritage of the Pilgrims - W. M. Evarts (1855)
The history of the Pilgrims, or, A grandfather's story of the first settlers of New England - T. R. Marvin (1831)
The history of the primitive Yankees - W. C. Coleman (1881)
The illustrated Pilgrim memorial Vol. 1860 - Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) (1860)
The illustrated Pilgrim memorial Vol. 1863 - Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) (1863)
The journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth - E. Winslow (1849)
The last of the Mayflower - J. R. Harris (1920)
The May-flower and her log, July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621, chiefly from original sources - A. Ames (1901)
The Mayflower compact and its signers, with facsimiles and a list of the Mayflower passengers - G. E. Bownman (1920)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 1 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1899)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 2 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1900)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 3 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1901)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 4 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1902)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 5 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1903)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 6 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1904)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 7 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1905)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 8 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1906)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 9 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1907)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 10 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1908)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 11-12 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1909-10)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 13-14 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1911-12)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 15-16 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1913-14)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 17-18 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1915-16)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 19-20 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1917-18)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 21-22 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1919-20)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 23-24 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1921-22)
The Mayflower descendant - a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history Vol. 25 - Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants (1923)
The Mayflower Pilgrims - E. J. Carpenter (1918)
The Mayflower pilgrims - W. Bradford (1921)
The Mayflower town - J. Winsor (1887)
The memory of John Robinson - A. Lamson (1852)
The memory of our fathers - L. Beecher (1828)
The old ways - J. A. Copp (1857)
The orations on Bunker Hill monument - the character of Washington and the landing at Plymouth - D. Webster (1894)
The pastor of the Pilgrims - a biography of John Robinson - W. H. Burgess (1920)
The path of the Pilgrim church, from its origin in England to its establishment in New England (1862)
The Pilgrim and the Book - P. MacKaye (1920)
The Pilgrim fathers. Exhibition of documents from public and private collections at Leiden, relating to the Dutch settlements in North-America (1888)
The Pilgrim fathers - a glance at their history, character and principles - H. M. Goodwin (1870)
The Pilgrim fathers, their church and colony - W. Cockshott (1909)
The Pilgrim fathers in Holland; their condition - W. C. Winslow (1891)
The Pilgrim fathers of New England a history - W. C. Martyn (1867)
The Pilgrim fathers of New England and their Puritan successors - J. Brown (1906)
The Pilgrim fathers, or, The founders of New England in the reign of James the First - W. H. Bartlett (1854)
The Pilgrim fathers; or, The journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, New England, in 1620 - G. B. Cheever (1849)
The Pilgrim press - a bibliographical & historical memorial of the books printed at Leyden by the Pilgrim fathers - J. R. Harris (1922)
The Pilgrim republic an historical review of the colony of New Plymouth - J. A. Goodwin (1888)
The Pilgrim republic; an historical review of the colony of New Plymouth, with sketches of the rise of other New England settlements - J. A. Goodwin (1920)
The Pilgrim spirit; a pageant in celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 21, 1620 - G. P. Baker (1921)
The Pilgrim temple-builders - J. M. Holmes (1866)
The Pilgrim tercentenary exhibition in the New York public library (1920)
The Pilgrim tercentenary pageant of Marietta, Ohio, 1620, 1788, 1920 - W. C. Langdon (1920)
The Pilgrims - F. A. Noble (1907)
The pilgrims - I. Ketler (1910)
The Pilgrims a story of Massachusetts - J. R. Musick (1894)
The Pilgrims and their history - R. G. Usher (1918)
The Pilgrims and their monument - E. J. Carpenter (1919)
The Pilgrims' first year in New England - N. Gale (1857)
The Pilgrims in their three homes, England, Holland, America - W. E. Griffis (1914)
The Pilgrims of New England, a tale of the early American settlers - A. Web-Peploe (1875)
The Pilgrims of Plymouth - H. C. Lodge (1921)
The Pilgrims of Plymouth - J. Pierpoint (1856)
The pilgrims of the rock - J. R. Chandler (1846)
The pilot of the Mayflower; a tale of the children of the pilgrim republic - H. Butterworth (1898)
The place of the Pilgrims in American history - E. B. Greene (1921)
The Plymouth pilgrims - J. C. Labaree (1871)
The proceedings at the celebration by the Pilgrim society at Plymouth, December 21, 1870, of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims (1871)
The Puritan as a colonist and reformer - E. H. Byington (1899)
The Puritan conspiracy against the Pilgrim fathers and the Congregational Church, 1624 - J. A. Goodwin (1883)
The quest of liberty ; the adventures of the Mayflower pilgrims - B. J. Mathews (1920)
The Religious and Legal Constitution of the Pilgrim State - P. S. Howe (1923)
The romantic story of the Mayflower Pilgrims, and its place in the life of to-day - A. C. Addison (1918)
The second record-book of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1908)
The spirit of the Pilgrims - W. H. Furness (1846)
The story of a Pilgrim family. From the Mayflower to the present time; with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the author, Rev. Joh Alden, in his 83rd year (1890)
The story of the Pilgrim fathers, 1606-1623 A.D. - as told by themselves, their friends, and their enemies - E. Arber (1897)
The story of the Pilgrims - M. Dexter (1894)
The term Pilgrim fathers - A. Matthews (1915)
The third record-book of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1911)
The Tilson genealogy, from Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, N.E., 1638 to 1911; with brief sketches of the family in England back to 1066 - M. V. Tilson (1911)
The women of the Mayflower and women of Plymouth colony - E. Noyes (1921)
The women who came in the Mayflower - A. R. Marble (1920)
Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland Vols. 1 & 2 - A. Forbes (1921)
Track of the hidden church or, The springs of the Pilgrim movement - J. Waddington (1863)
Venturers for the Kingdom, a study in the history of the Pilgrim Fathers - H. G. Wood (1919)
Views from Plymouth rock; a sketch of the early history of the Plymouth colony - Z. A. Mudge (1869)
Welcome, Englishmen; or, Pilgrims, Puritans and Roger Williams vindicated and his sentence of banishment ought to be revoked - T. M. Merriman (1896)
When the Mayflower sailed away - R. H. Greene (1897)
Young people's history of the Pilgrims - W. E. Griffis (1920)