Introduction

Welcome to MayflowerHistory.com, the Internet's most complete and accurate website dealing with the Mayflower passengers and the history of the Pilgrims and early Plymouth Colony.  This website was first created back in 1994 (when the web was still mostly text!) as a simple, but complete, passenger list of the Mayflower.  It has grown significantly since then as the author, historian Caleb Johnson, has researched and compiled material. 

About the Author

Caleb Johnson, the author and historian behind MayflowerHistory.com, graduated from Texas Tech University with two majors (history and English) and two minors (computer science and archaeology).  He subsequently earned an MBA with an emphasis in IT Management.  In November 2020, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. He has been researching and studying the Mayflower passengers since 1992, and has authored and edited a number of books including the 1173-page reference tome, The Complete Works of the Mayflower Pilgrims (Vancouver, 2003); The Mayflower and Her Passengers (Xlibris,  2005); William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (Xlibris, 2006), and his best-selling work--a biography of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins entitled Here Shall I Die Ashore (now also available in audiobook form).  He also transcribed the Brewster Book Manuscript. His research has been used and cited by New York Times best-selling authors including Nathaniel Philbrick (Mayflower)  and Nick Bunker (Making Haste from Babylon); he assisted with the Sally Fields episode of PBS's "Finding Your Roots"; and participated in the PBS show “Hit and Run History: Stephano—The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck” (2020).  Caleb edited the scholarly historical and genealogical journal, the Mayflower Descendant from 2011-2014. Caleb has been on the forefront of genealogical research as it pertains to the English origins of the Mayflower passengers, discovering and publishing the English origins of Stephen Hopkins at Hursley, Hampshire (1998) and Peter Browne at Dorking, Surrey, England (2004).  He discovered English records documenting the origins of Thomas Williams, Solomon Prower, John Hooke, John Crackstone, and others. In 2017-2019, he collaborated with Sue Allan and Simon Neal to piece together the English origins of William and Susanna (Jackson) White, Dorothy May, Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, Isaac Allerton, and John Carver.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all material appearing on MayflowerHistory.com is copyrighted.  It may be used for personal study; for non-commercial academic and educational use; and you may link to any page within the site that you wish.  However, commercial use or wide-scale copying of my material to another Internet site or publication is prohibited without express written permission.  Note that individual facts are not copyrightable.  If you wish to take facts from this website and present them elsewhere in your own commentary and presentation, that is entirely permissible. It would be great if you cited MayflowerHistory.com as your source.