List of Mayflower Passengers - Servants

Servants

Thirteen of the eighteen persons in this category were attached to Pilgrim families, the other five were with non-Pilgrim families. Four of those listed here were small children, given over by Samuel More to Thomas Weston and then to agents John Carver and Robert Cushman, who assigned them to senior Mayflower Pilgrims to be classed as indentured servants. This was all due to scandal involving the children’s mother and her husband Samuel’s effort to dispose of the children by sending them away to Virginia as indentured servants. Long ago, Richard More and his siblings were even thought to have even been parentless London street waifs, but in 1959 a 1622 document revealed their being the product of an adulterous relationship as the reason why the children were sent abroad on the Mayflower.

• Butten, William*, age: "a youth", servant of Samuel Fuller, died during the voyage
• Carter, Robert*, teenager, servant or apprentice to William Mullins, shoemaker.
• --?--, Dorothy, teenager, maidservant of John Carver.
• Doty, Edward, (possibly Lincolnshire) age probably about 21, servant to Stephen Hopkins
• Holbeck, William*, age likely under 21, servant to William White
• Hooke, John*, (probably Norwich, Norfolk) age 13, apprenticed to Isaac Allerton, died during the first winter
• Howland, John (probably Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire), age about 21, manservant for Governor John Carver
• Langmore, John* (probably Shropshire or Worcestershire), age under 21, servant to the Christopher Martin
• Latham, William, age 11, servant/apprentice to the John Carver family
• Leister, Edward also spelled Leitster. (Kensington), aged over 21, servant to Stephen Hopkins
• More, Ellen (Elinor)*, {Shipton, Shropshire), Elinor (Ellen) More, age 8, assigned as a servant of Edward Winslow. She died in November 1620 soon after the arrival of the Mayflower at Cape Cod Harbor.
• More, Jasper*, (Shipton, Shropshire), brother, age 7, indentured to John Carver. He died onboard Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor December 6, 1620. He was buried ashore in the Provincetown area.
• More, Richard, (Shipton, Shropshire), brother, age 6, indentured to William Brewster. Richard More is buried in what was known as the Charter Street Burial Ground but is now the Burying Point/Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts. He is the only Mayflower passenger to have his gravestone still where it was originally placed sometime in the mid-1690s. Also buried nearby in the same cemetery were his two wives, Christian Hunter More and Jane (Crumpton) More."
• More, Mary*, (Shipton, Shropshire), sister, age 6, assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died sometime in the winter of 1620/1621. Her burial place is unknown, but may been on Cole's Hill in Plymouth in an unmarked grave as with so many others buried there that winter. As with her sister Ellen, she is recognized on the Pilgrim Memorial Tomb in Plymouth, misidentified after her sister's name as "and a brother (children)" - the statement of calling her "a brother" mistakenly coming from William Bradford's failing memory years after the event of her death.
• Soule, George, 21-25, servant or employee of Edward Winslow
• Story, Elias*, age under 21, in the care of Edward Winslow
• Thompson/Thomson, Edward*, age under 21, in the care of the William White family, first passenger to die after the Mayflower reached Cape Cod.
• Wilder, Roger*, age under 21, servant in the John Carver family
• Williams, Thomas*, (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)

In all, there were 102 passengers on the Mayflower - 74 males and 28 females