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Must be proud his lineage ended up as a Faze clown Do better

My ancestor _Stephen Hopkins_ knew your ancestor lol

William Bradford was my ancestor, as well.

Nice to meet you cousin. Bradford was my 9th too. Alice Ripley is my 6th great aunt. 😀 I also found the connection to Winslow, Sampson and I think Brewster for a cousin relationship.

My 10th great grandmother is Mary chilton 🙌

Mine as well! Have you tried joining the Mayflower Society?

Took my aunt from Martha's Vineyard 45years to research my grandfather's family tree ; traces back to William Bradford.

hello cousin he is mine too through his oldest son from his second marriage.

Indians weren't the original settlers here either.

@@lgaines4086 A comprehensive reading course could benefit you.

Are you able to share the story from your ancestors POV? Or do you have a good video to recommend? Would be good to see this from both the native and settler perspective

I would love to hear your POV

@@lgaines4086 Who were?

I doubt there standing their like a welcome committee ready to greet invaders.🤔

They weren't the original settlers though.

@@lgaines4086 you posted that same comment elsewhere so what point are you trying to say? That's it's irrelevant the treatment that the natives that were here at that moment and have been for quite a long time, were deserving of what was about to happen to them?

You should have killed them then the colonists treated the natives so poorly and took advantage of their generosity

@@lgaines4086 so if the Chinese land in California and start building houses then it's okay because the people there aren't the original settlers?

You can find a wiki page of him.

@@dukejohn2898 Thank you, but my daughter does geneology and has 1-2 books on the decedants of George Soule. I'm proud of him for having the fortitude when so many other did no survive. What a time that must have been for all of them. Thank you again for your information.

My 11th great grandfather was William Bradford....what a miracle they even survived!

@@Grace2Hope very true. Things looked very bleak.

I am too! My family has kept documentation on him as well! I’m part of the 14th generation. It would be so neat to compare notes!

You should do a podcast on ads. I mean, this channel is overwhelmingly ads and minimal documentary.

If you do a podcast, you should make sure you video it and put them on RU-vid. It’s really hard for me to find good history content on here so I would definitely follow you 😊

Please amke sure to get both sides of a story and please think of covering metacoms war (aka king phillips war).

It truely is a miracle that he survived especially in view of being an indentured servant. I've gotten a few snotty responses but I don't care. Someone is always unhappy. If you want I can have my daughter try to get in touch with you regarding this. She's out of town for the next few weeks. This is one thing that really perks her up.

@@sarahwright4104 I think I understand angry comments when everything is viewed backward, but hindsight is 20/20 with history. I think it’s unimportant to be angry about history and sit with it, as opposed to recognizing what happened and being active in the endeavor for the future to prevent similar occurrences. No one has control over their ancestors and their actions, but we do have control of understanding ourselves and our histories to make a difference in the present. So let us all be curious about where we come from without fear of retribution :) I doubt George went on the journey with intent of killing natives. Also, while it’s still totally immoral, it’s in part human/animal nature-ingroup versus outgroup etc. native Americans are hardly the first and last to be a slaughtered group as sad as it is. Look at Ukraine versus Russia right now, for example. Like I said, doesn’t make it right, but doesn’t make the situation unique regarding humans.

Hey, Nurse family here. Our ancestors could have met... So perhaps, once again... bless to you and your family. Via hundreds of years of time. :)

@@MrWolfheart111 Lol I'm sure they knew each other.

@@nataliefischer6265 i can agree with that. It's sort of like being blamed for slavery when your ancestors owned no slaves, and some died fighting for their freedom. I won't apologize for my white skin. We are responsible for our actions not the actions of others.

There is still plenty of land, he can go back to living like his ancestors: perpetually technologically stagnant, stone age, cannibalistic, savages.

@@stephenbiggins9114 They're not savages they're highly skilled intelligent human beings.

Lmfao as if it would change anything. They didn't even know how to tame horses until Europeans came to the America's they were destined go lose the land to someone eventually. Glad it was us.

The confederation of the original 13 colonies and the later US constitution democratic principles were influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy so they couldn't have been so primitive

@@ladymonacoofthebluepacific2571 If you were alive then, you would've had the same beliefs. You would look at their way of life as being "less than" and "savage". And in a way, compared to all of what they had in Europe (at that time)-They were quite savage...Its absolutely amazing to me how people today "judge yesterday's men by today's standards". Smh. Once one does that, they lose all sense on the meaning of history.

My English ancestors came to Jamestown and my French ancestors came to Mankin, Virgina. They were Huguenots.

Yeah, they definitely SHOULD, but THAT would go against the whole "ohhhh, I beez soooo oppressed... " bullshyt narrative these scamming BLM 🤡s try to push... They seem to FORGET that while they're screaming "muh oppreshun!" that there were MANY other groups of people who suffered WAY more than black people... I mean it isn't like: - Over 1 MILLION (to this day, NO ONE actually knows just HOW MANY) Irish bodies weren't taken away by coffin ships & just DUMPED in the ocean WITHOUT proper funeral rites or a grave you could visit... - the 1st British invasion of Northern Ireland wasn't in 1137 ad... - the 2nd british/Scottish invasion of Northern Ireland wasn't in 1278 ad & the a-holes HAVN'T LEFT YET - 500 YEARS LATER... - they didn't target CHILDREN & burn children alive, JUST to avoid prisoners (🤬 Cromwell was a walking war crime AND a murdering bastaard 🤬) - indentured servants didn't have it WAYYYY WORSE once they signed that 7 year contract. You never hear about a slave being beat to death, because the people who PAID for that slave wanted their $s worth. But hey, indentured servants were FREE & LEGALLY BOUND by contract, so it was all perfectly LEGAL to beat them TO DEATH, which happened on MANY occasions (go read Mary Dyer's court case where she was 8 months pregnant & the woman who held her contract took a red-hot frying pan & beat her until her skull was caved in, JUST because Mary saw the woman's watch ⌚️ falling out of her pocket & about to shatter on a stone floor & tried to stop it...) 🤦‍♂️🤯 - the woman who bashed her head in got off SCOT FREE in court... But oh hey, let's all shout some clown ass fake shyt like "BLM" in honor of a bunch of hood-rats who shot at cops & got their punk assses gunned down or died of a fentanyl overdose... Gimme a damn break - the importance of ALL human life was NEVER a question...

@@Andy_Babb nooo, you mistake intent 🤦‍♂️🤯🪦... what I was saying is NONE of these channels have the balls to talk about certain subjects, EVEN as a documentary... They try to avoid things & we know damn well that these things are WELL documented as fact...

@@Andy_Babb Ships carrying dead people.... yeah they are related and it makes sense to be reminded of such a thing.

@@ChristelVinot they weren't called coffin ships because they transported bodies, they were called coffin ships because your bed was the size of a coffin and a lot of people died onboard

@@padraig6200 well then that's even MORE similar to the thing

I think they probably saw “the land” being empty as what they were able to see not having people on it while they stood there. What they could see with their eyes was empty. I’m not sure that they’d have had a concept of owning land that wasn’t built upon somehow. You go to a forest, see no one there, and think it’s empty. Nowadays, you might have it in your head that someone may own that land and there will be a deep somewhere. Back then, they didn’t have that in the not-yet-US, and so the records they’d have expected didn’t exist, and therefore, the land must have been available for the taking. They were ignorant. Those who came later were malicious.

@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria Yes. When they finally found out it’s not empty, they still insist it’s empty.

Someone still upset the people with sticks and arrows got conquered?

@@bruceleroy1683 Here’s the problem: the people with arrows didn’t perceive you as an enemy. They help you find the foods. Yet u perceive em as “someone need to be conquered, and need to be made bow down and inferior“. There’s a problem with your mindset.😲

@@real_hello_kitty Plimoth Plantation was a very small settlement built on an abandoned Wampanoag village. They didn't displace anyone. Literally half of them died. The remaining people were just trying to survive, and they formed an alliance with the Wampanoag.

How much did your family make from the insane ads?

@@ivermectin7928 probably a good deal more than it costs to just pay for RU-vid premium instead of bitching about it.

I had 2- G.Grandfathers and a G.Grandmother on the Mayflower

@@jefferyeis9287 do you know their names? I just did my family tree and found out William Bradford was my 8th great grandfather….you and I might be related 😊

Me too. I’m going to have to start looking into this more. I know Holst was one last name of family. I do have a family tree book which starts there. Supposedly there is one before they came over.

LOVE❤️💗 that book. Such great story telling!

The current fanatical evangelist/Republican nutters are very much on par with the Separatist/Puritans aka "Pilgrims. They would most approve.

@Alan Probably not.

Alan No, because 19:30 they regarded the land as “empty”. They didn’t regard the natives had already occupied there. Just because they don’t see them, doesn’t mean it’s ‘empty’. The “wrong” already started from root. 🤔

@@real_hello_kitty same with abortion...

@@alicelong3613 What does it have thing to do with that? You are talking an unrelated topic. I said the “wrong” started from the in the root. Catholic don’t believe in s__x outside marriage. So if you do it, u know that’s the root. Everything else is the side effects of the root cause. That’s why zip up ⬆️ your pants, you’ll be okay. Address the raipest, not the raip vecteem.😉

I understand that, during the first year, when 50% of the Pilgrims died, they were buried in the night outside the compound. It was a covert operation. A hidden secret thing so those first graves are probably lost to history.

@@goodwillbunny5773 no, the original burial ground was where the ones who died during the first winter were buried. Prior to what you are talking about. There's a monument at the first burial ground

That'd be the hill, on Water St. next to Leyden St...where the first homes were. Being mere yards from the water, no wonder they died of the cold. Coldest spot in the whole Town!

Then we are related in some way. Resolved White is my 9th great grandfather.

We are related, lol. Peregrine White, his brother, is my ancestor. So we are descendants of William Write and his wife, whose name escapes me at the moment.

@@builtontherockhomestead9390 hi cousin!

Wasn't so bad, they weren't locked below deck on shelves and in chains

The ship was docked for months, because the bay was shallow, they used a “shallop” a small barge so the males disembarked, and the women stayed behind. The first winter killed many of them

@@curtisthomas2670 or thrown overboard 😖😭

Well, it fills countless books! Good effort for short time! I have Bradford too.

Ditto! ❤

my beloved, Daryl Bergquist, is a descendant of Richard Warren’s. thank you, Alabama

It amazes me that Bradford gets so much credit. He was a writer/keeper of records. William Brewster had more to do with the Mayflower and the reason was for religious freedom. He fled from England or stay and die for not worshiping the new religion 14 years He worked as a printer to earn money to hire the Mayflower Check it out.

Francis Billington.

The Speedwell wasn’t able to make the trip. The Anne didn’t come with Mayflower in 1620. There were several ships that came after! 😊

Sheriff of which Town?

People tend to act in improper ways, even today. We humans are not perfect.

Very interesting

@@FancySlut I think it was the mid 80's when a woman in Syracuse contacted my father about genealogical information. My father referred her to my brother who was into that kind of thing. This woman was in her 80's and had been doing researh on our family for her entire life. My original Martin ancestor had come here in 1827, and had 17 kids, 13 of whom lived, so she had a lot of work to do. As it turns out, his second wife was the "gold vein", as her ancestry ran deep into the core of American history. However, back when he married her, she was just an ordinary farm girl in Central NY, which was becoming settled. It seemed her ancestors had moved from CT, to NY for free land. Anyway, up until then, my mother used to say that my fathers ancestors were "a bunch of damn farmers". She took pride in the fact that she had a Rev. war colonel in her tree. Her mother discovered that when she had her ancestry researched so she could join the DAR, back in the 1920's. So, that is where it stood at the beginning of the 80's. Then, my brother started doing some digging further back, and I did research starting in 1998, when I bought my first computer. We turned up a lot more. For instance, on my mother's side, we had an ancestor who cofouned Concord, MA. On my father's side, we are direct descendant's of Roger Williams, the founder of RI. (the lady had this!). On his side too, we had a guy who would have been our uncle at the time, who was a jury foreman of the most noted Salem Witch Trial. I discovered we had a common ancestor with Benedict Arnold 100 years before he was born. On my mother's side, one of her ancestors founded the Willard Clock Co. which made most clocks in the US for about 200 years. Also on her side, her ancestor who came here from Ireland had a brother. It seems when they got off the boat, one went north, the other south. Her ancestor was a tinsmith and made tinware until the Civil War, when he was in the NY Artillary. He came back from the war but was dead within five years. I think it had something to do with possibly losing his hearing or PTSD. His brother went to Dalton GA, and founded a tin implement company and supplied the South with tinware. My Martin ancestor who settled in NY eventually became the largest hop producer in Oneida County. Hops were used in beer making. He did well it seems, until after the Civil War, when that business moved to WI. Probably a better climate for hops, barley and wheat. That is the reason why beer making went ot Milwaukee. So, those are the high points. However, tracing a Martin ancestor back, I had an ancestor who was the sister of John Locke, the philosopher. And Tracing another person back I have a tenative link with the royal family of France and Henry III King of France. If so, I can go back to Charlemagne, and from him back to the King of Cologne in the 2nd century. I wish all of this was worth money. I would be rich. It isn't worth a penny. As they say, that and a buck fifty will buy me a coffee at McDonald's.

@Philby Iasgair My common ancestor with Benedict was a Williams. I am a direct descendant of Roger Williams the founder of RI. My ancestors generally came from CT and moved upstate to Madison and Oneida counties. I had one who went to Otsego County. None of the ones with Mayflower connections had the Martin name. The Mayflower connections come from females with other maiden names. On my mother's side, I had an almost direct connection with the founder of Concord, MA, and the Willard Clock Co, which made most of the clocks in America for about 200 years. For most of my life, I'm 73, i didn't know anything about any of this. The second wife of the Martin who came here from England in 1827, married a Williams, who had deep colonial history in her. But then there was also the one who had Stephen Hopkins. Now, my brother says we have another one who was on the Mayflower. I have to get the details from him. I wish I could sell this stuff. I'm sure there are rich people out there who wish they had it in their ancestry. I could use the money! LOL.

I also go back to Stephen Hopkins (& his son Gyles), cousin.

@@richardquinn3578 He's a good one, if you are going to have one in your tree.

Me too❤

Also me

I too am a descendant of those from the Mayflower.

It's great that you are able to trace your lineage so far back. Most of us African Americans aren't so blessed.

america is a continent.. you’re european

@@tippullthemnow9839 the usa is an illegal occupation. So is Canada too.majority of these Nation states set up in the western hemisphere.#landback #decolonized.

its because this isn't an american documentary. That increases the quality tremendously.

So I guess they were ‘codependents’ of the West. Why didn’t they team up with the Natives against the corporation instead?🤔 And lived lives like the Natives?🤔

@@real_hello_kitty Because they didn't know how. They knew some farming, fishing and hunting but they starved over that first winter next to some of the most productive oyster and clam beds on the North American East Coast while being devastated by disease. The natives could have told them about cranberries, a good source of vitamin C and ground nuts (peanuts), a good source of protein, both of which were lacking in the Pilgrim's diet. The following summer, Squanto and Samoset taught the colonists something about planting crops in that climate

@@tessat338 So the following summer they _know how_ .🧐

@@tessat338 So they were starving, and it’s the 👉 natives’ _fault_ . Not their west Europe oppressors fault. It’s always the fault of the people who taught them to find food, NOT the fault of the people who kicked them from Europe.🤔

@@real_hello_kitty Oh, I'm not blaming the natives. The more one studies the Pilgrim plantation expedition, the more one realizes how woefully unprepared for their adventure they were. Many of them paid for this with their lives. They landed, outside of where they were planning to go, with insufficient supplies, at the beginning of winter, and then sickness broke out. That ANY of them survived is amazing. They owe most of the credit for that survival to the help they got from the Native Americans and to resupply from England.

@Amanda Miller Small world. I've had relatives who stayed there. No Mayflower visits? Haha, that's probably a good thing.

I live in the town where he was born in the North of England 🙏

@@michelles2299 I want to visit so badly! I know his home is still there

Hello cousin!!!

Who cares ? Boring 😴

Not stating right or wrong, id say the newcomers were desperate. And any nourishment found there was no debate when it came to survival.

This was a great show it showed the real history of us white Europeans coming here not the slanted view that they show now that has the pilgrims being mustache twirling villains that were over here to kill Indians enslaved blacks which is what they portray in the world now which is such a joke these were the people that set the foundation for the greatest country in the history of mankind

This was a great show it showed the real history of us white Europeans coming here not the slanted view that they show now that has the pilgrims being mustache twirling villains that were over here to kill Indians enslaved blacks which is what they portray in the world now which is such a joke these were the people that set the foundation for the greatest country in the history of mankind

@@johnjohnon8767 but at what point it turned them into oppressors?

They literally came to steal land from the natives. You should judge them

If it weren't brits it would have been french or spanish. The reality of the time is that if you couldnt hold such valuable land, someone was going to take it from you.

absolutely

If it was other people they may have just wiped them out and taken there supplies.

@@thetroll1247 Well, they ended up doing just that, tbh. It just took a little bit of time. They almost succeeded in wiping us out, but we're still here.

@@catbyte0679 and still moaning about it.

🤨.

They are my 9th great grandparents; also through Elizabeth. I think about 3.5% of the US population is related to those who sailed on the Mayflower.

@@grannyoakley20 Curious how far down we match now. lolol Mine is Eliz Alden, Eliz Pabodie, Eliz Rogers. Then Captian Perez Richmond.

I, too, was curious. Mine goes from Elizabeth ALDEN to Lydia PABODIE to Pabodie GRINNELL to Lydia GRINNELL to Joseph SPENCER. I am also a SPENCER. My research shows Elizabeth ROGERS married to Silvester RICHMOND and one of their sons was named Perez. I will check my data on that!

@@grannyoakley20 Yes that is what I have also. Then onto a Throop. I was adopted, and did not even know who my parents where until I was 54. To find this was such a treat, although I cant join any associations until they allow dna as evidence. :( but at least I know part of me was there. LOL. Good to meet you cousin.

Hello Cousins!

Lol

FINALLY a non romanticized explanation of the origins and basis of the US. People, especially Americans, fail to realize how Calvinist-Puritan beliefs continue to drive modern American policy and attitudes today, e.g. the cruelty of the American health care system, hatred of immigrants and "brown" people, etc. Hard work doesn't produce benefits for all, just white people. I second the irony of seeking refuge in tolerant Holland, only to create an intolerant theocracy in the New World.

Wow...you need to learn a lil Dutch history. Freedom and tolerance was NOT the rule of the day. Their liberal ideas did not come from a belief in freedom and tolerance. It was a result of being ruled by money( which is far worse than religion). it took the Dutch centuries, and an economic downfall, to get out of the slavery/ genocide game. The US addressed and eliminated slavery within one generation of its founding...at great cost..at a time when half the country( a significant portion of the economy) was dependent on it. The pilgrims, who you seem to confuse with puritans, established the ideals that the US ( often violently) continues to perpetuate.

People need to stop conflating the Puritans/Pilgrims with the Founding Fathers. One group were retro Talibans that would've condemned the others to death for their beliefs

Violence and greed did not begin or end with the Pilgrims or whoever they were. I've read the account of 6,000 years of recorded human history and it has always been a story of greed and killing to take what belongs to someone else.

So many words, so little understanding of history. Lol. Maybe you should read a few books before trying to write one in the comment section.

God is with them..