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Mayflower Passengers who
Died the First Winter (1620-1621)
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Thomas Prince compiled a set of statistics on the first winter for his 1737
book, Chronological History of New England; he used a register of
deaths written by William Bradford, which was apparently lost during the
Revolutionary War. Prince recorded the following statistics:
That makes a total of 45. The above list contains 49 individuals. Some apparently died in early April, for which a count is not given. Three of the April deaths were likely Joseph and Alice Mullins and Robert Carter, who are mentioned in the will of William Mullins with no notation indicating they had died--the Mayflower departed Plymouth on April 5. John Carver and his wife Katherine died shortly after the Mayflower's departure as well, but are not included here. He died of an apparent sunstroke in later April, and she died of a "broken heart" within a couple of weeks, probably sometime in May. William Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation says that John Goodman also died the first winter: but John Goodman is named in the 1623 Division of Land, so it seems he survived at least that long. He is not found in the 1627 Division of Cattle, however.
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