CHILDREN: none known
Desire Minter came as a part of John Carver's family. Her parents were William Minter and Sarah Willet, who were living in Leyden with the other seperatists. William Minter died before 1618, when his widow Sarah married on Roger Symondsen on 18 August 1618 in Leyden. She was again widowed, and married a third time to Roger Eastman on 10 May 1622 in Leyden. Sarah was the mid-wife for the Pilgrim's Separatist church in Holland.
Desire was about fifteen years old when she came to Plymouth on the Mayflower. She returned to England a few years after her arrival, and died there before 1651, apparently without having married.
SOURCES:
Jeremy D. Bangs, "The Pilgrims and Other English in Leiden Records: Some New Pilgrim Documents," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 143(1989):195-199.
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Samuel Morison (New York: Random House, 1952).