Wills of Mayflower Passengers


With the exception of Peregrine White, Edward Winslow, William Mullins, and Mary (Chilton) Winslow, the original wills of all Mayflower passengers have been lost.  However, when wills were probated, the judge copied them into the court records.  The court records are still in existance, and so it is from them that these records originate.  Below are the transcribed contents of all known wills of Mayflower passengers.


Please note that these wills maintain the original spelling and punctuation, and have not been modernized.  Do not blame the Pilgrims for "bad spelling", as the first comprehensive English dictionary was published well over 100 years after these wills were written.


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