Carver (Y-DNA)

Status summary

As of March 29, 20230:

• No straightforward opportunities for advanced Y-DNA testing
• Low priority

Summary of findings

The only known child of Gov. John Carver apparently died young.

Paper Trail

For further information see Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 54-56.

First Generation

John Carver was baptized Great Bealings, Suffolk 12 Mar 1580/1 son of John Carver and Margaret _____. He died sometime in Apr 1621 at the New Plimouth Colony. He married twice, first by 1603 Martha Rose and second, by 1609 Catherine WHITE Leggatt (no children). By his first wife he had a daughter Margaret (bp. 1603 likely died young). John and his second wife moved from England to Leiden sometime between their marriage (circa 1609) and 1615 (when he was made a Deacon of John Robinson's congregation). Carver and Robert Cushman served as agents for the congregation to negotiate with the London "adventurers" (investors who paid for the 'Mayflower voyage) to finance the voyage. Immediately prior to their voyage to their new colony Carver was appointed governor of the setters.

External links and references

• Allan, Sue, Caleb Johnson and Simon Neal, "The Probable Origin of Mayflower Passenger John Carver and the Minter Family in Suffolk", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 174:5-20.
• Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, Second edition 1995, 1996. pp.
• Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References: from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals Stewart Publishing, Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp.
• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 54-56
• Pilgrim Hall Museum biography of John and Catherine Carver.

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