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Pilgrim Village Families Sketch: Thomas English

Robert Charles Anderson

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Birth:

Thomas English was probably born in England by 1595.

Death:

He died in Plymouth Colony in the winter of 1620/1.

Ship:

Mayflower, 1620

Life in England:

Nothing is known of his life in England.

Life in Holland:

Thomas England has been tentatively identified as the Thomas English in Leiden by 1613.

Life in New England:

In his history of Plymouth Colony Bradford wrote, “John Allerton and Thomas English were both hired, the latter to go master of a shallop here …. But both died before the [Mayflower] returned.”