| Show descendants OF PILGRIMS sir walter desant besant figures rig urea that there are in america many 23 any people in america claim descent from the pilgrim fathers thero there might be a very considerable erable number if we come to think of it for instance let us assume the number of married people among the first hundred bundred who survived the first winter as 20 c copies aples wo will allow them three a apiece we will give to each of these children two a large allowee allo wae it is true then we have for each married couple for the he first generation 8 3 descendants for the second 6 for the third 12 for the fourth 24 for the fifth 48 for the tha sixth 06 for the seventh for tho eighth for the ninth and the present generation and for the original 20 married couples so that the living descendants of the mayflower pilgrims can hardly be more than about abent 15 out ont of these a great many havo have probably clean forgotten their descent probably there are not anything like lifee 10 it if I 1 were an aa american I 1 should certainly like to be one of that not nofe that I 1 feel tho least attraction to a narrow and fanatic religion out but because the pilgrim ra fathers made so fierce a fight for existence and a place where they could think as they pleased and allow no one else to think as he might please ancestry in this country at least is chiefly a matter of selection the people who keep up their genealogies drop out as they go along numberless branches people who wish to tc recover their genealogies havo have got to hitch oo on at one of the dropped branches every marriage in a genealogy is a kind afkind of junction where many lines may meet now tho the business of the genealogist is to look up all the june eions to follow up each one and to choose the line which offers the most desirable alliances ances some years ago an aa ingenious gentleman offered to find roy al descent for any one cue for 70 down he did it too quite honestly ho he said that if you could only get back years or EO it was perfectly easy to connect with edward I 1 or edward III sir walter besant in london queen quee n |
