(c.1599–1687)
One of the best known of the *Pilgrim Fathers because of various details, two of them legendary. The legends are that he was the first Pilgrim to set foot on Plymouth Rock, and that he wooed Priscilla Mullens as a proxy for his friend Myles Standish (a tradition made famous by Longfellow in his poem The Courtship of Myles Standish). It is a fact, however, that he married Priscilla (and had 11 children with her); and that when he died, he was the last survivor of those who had arrived in the Mayflower.
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